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Deploy groups
Deploy groups organize the targets of deployment operations. Deploy targets are specified as members within the deploy group. These deploy targets can represent unmanaged systems, which could be targets of a createNode deployment operation. Deploy targets can also represent managed systems where a Tivoli Monitoring or Netcool System Service Monitor (SSM) agent is already installed. Both of these types of deploy targets can be added as members to deploy groups.
This dual representation of targets within deploy groups allows a group to specify:
- Targets of an initial OS agent or SSM deployment using the tacmd createNode command.
- Targets of an application agent deployment using the tacmd addSystem command.
- Targets of an agent or SSM upgrade using the tacmd updateAgent command.
- Targets of an agent or SSM configuration deployment using the tacmd configureSystem command.
Once you create the necessary deploy groups to represent logical groupings of systems within the enterprise, these groups can be used repeatedly during the lifecycle of your monitoring infrastructure to deploy, update, start, stop, configure, and eventually remove agents.
- Deploy groups best practices
There are a number of best practices associated with deploy groups.
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Organizing deployments using groups