Rather than listing a large number of targets individually, you can use a group as the target of a job. All member targets in the group that match the selected target type of the job are selected as actual targets of the job when it runs. If the membership of the group changes, the actual target list of the job changes with it. If the job repeats, each iteration (or "run") of the job executes on the matching targets in the group at the time of the run.

Overriding the Target Type Selection

To override the target type selection for a group, set targetType=<override_target_type> in the input file for the create_job verb. For example, the default target type for OSCommand jobs is "host". To submit a job against a group of databases, specify:

target_list=my_db_group:composite
targetType=oracle_database

Note that any targets in the group that do not match the target type selected are ignored.