Enterprise Manager Groups enable administrators to logically organize distributed targets for efficient and effective management and monitoring.

To create a group, follow these steps:

1. From the Enterprise Manager Console, choose Targets then choose Groups. Alternately, you can choose Add Target from the Setup menu and choose the menu option to add the specific type of group.

2. Click Create and choose the type of group you want to create. The Enterprise Manager Console displays a set of Create Group pages that function similarly to a wizard.

3. On the General tab of the Create Group page, enter the Name of the Group you want to create. If you want to make this a privilege propagating group, then enable the Privilege Propagation option by clicking Enabled. If you enable Privilege Propagation for the group, the target privileges granted on the group to an administrator or a role are propagated to the member targets. As with regular groups with privilege propagation, the Create Privilege Propagating Group privilege is required for creation of privilege propagating dynamic groups. In addition, the Full any Target privilege is required to enable privilege propagation because only targets on which the owner has Full Target privileges can be members, and any target can potentially match the criteria and a system wide Full privilege is required. To create a regular dynamic group, the View any Target system wide privilege is required as the group owner must be able to view any target that can potentially match the membership criteria.

4. Configure each page, then click OK. You should configure all the pages before clicking OK. For more information about these steps, see the online help.

After you create the group, you always have immediate access to it from the Groups page.

You can edit a group to change the targets that comprise the group, or change the metrics that you want to use to summarize a given target type. To edit a group, follow these steps: