MP Auto Group Creation

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I am currently creating a MP that will pull operational information into SCOM, e.g. importance, what hardware cluster the VM lives on, app name.

I am now trying to see if there is a way to configure this MP to Automatically create groups for the attributes that exist. e.g. Cluster A, Cluster B, App A, App B and the populate the computers into them. Instead of creating each group individually and being static

The reason behind this is we have a fast moving environment with new need for groups and if this could be automated would save a lot of overhead.

 

Any Ideas

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What you’re after is a dynamic group that uses properties to evaluate if an object should be in the group.

Plenty of detail in this article:

https://kevinholman.com/2010/07/27/authoring-scom-groups-from-simple-to-complex/

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Thanks Jelly, that part is easy enough, but i also want the groups to create themselves base on incoming information discovered, similar to how windows cluster groups are auto created.

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Hi Steven,

I believe that’s covered in the Advanced Discovery module of the management pack course:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/System-Center-2012-R2-Operations-Manager-Management-Packs/Mod14

If it’s not that particular module (been a while since I watched them all) it’s definitely in there somewhere!

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Ah apologies, I misunderstood!