Defines a group name and its members. After you create the group, you can edit it from the Enterprise Manager console to configure Summary Metrics to be displayed for group members.

Standard Mode

emcli create_group
      -name="name"
      [-type=<group>]
      [-add_targets="name1:type1;name2:type2;..."]...
      [-is_propagating="true/false"]

[ ]  indicates that the parameter is optional

Interactive or Script Mode

create_group
      (name="name"
      [,type=<group>]
      [,add_targets="name1:type1;name2:type2;..."]...
      [,is_propagating="true/false"])

[ ]  indicates that the parameter is optional

Options

• name

  Name of the group.

• type

  Group type: group. Defaults to "group".

• add_targets

  Add existing targets to the group. Each target is specified as a name-value pair target_name:target_type. You can specify this option more than once in Standard Mode.

• is_propagating

  Flag that indicates whether or not privilege on the group will be propagated to member targets. The default is false.

Example

This example creates a database-only group named db_group. This group consists of two Oracle databases: emp_rec and payroll.

emcli create_group 
      -name=db_group
      -add_targets="emp_rec:oracle_database"
      -add_targets="payroll:oracle_database"