For CA Unified Infrastructure Management:
The ability to create groups in USM allows a network administrator to view performance metrics for similar devices in a network. Now, grouping has been extended to interfaces in order to view traffic metrics—for example:
- Utilization % in/out
- Errors % in/out
- Discards % in/out
- MAC address
- Device speed
Interface grouping supports selection of interfaces by type or attribute.
There are three types of interface groups:
- Container – A parent to other groups.
- Dynamic – Interfaces that meet a specified set of criteria. The membership of dynamic groups is updated automatically as new devices are discovered that meet the criteria.
- Static – A user-created list of computer interfaces. The membership of the list does not change until interfaces are manually added or removed.
As a network monitor, you can use interface groups to filter your infrastructure view by location, technology, or even service. For example, you could create a container group for a business service that holds dynamic and/or static groups for web, application, and database servers.
This capability gives users a single place to go to view the performance of interfaces within and across a network.
For more information on creating interface groups in the Unified Service Manager, see the CA wiki documentation here.
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