Grouping vendor certification priorities lets you use more than one vendor certification for the same device. A single vendor certification priority can belong to as many priority groups as necessary for your application. When a device is discovered, all vendor certifications in the priority group are supported on the device.
Important! Do not update PriorityGroup and change the order of the vendor certifications in the same REST call. Changing both simultaneously may disrupt automatic rediscovery. For more information, see Automatic Rediscovery Does Not Run After Updating Vendor Group Priority.
To group vendor certification priorities, use the REST Web Services. You cannot group vendor certification priorities using the UI.
Follow these steps:
Run a GET operation on the following REST URL:
http://da_host:8581/rest/vendorpriorities/
The REST call returns a list of all the vendor certification priorities.
Determine the ID of your metric family in the list of vendor certification priorities.
Run a GET operation on the following REST URL:
http://da_host:8581/rest/vendorpriorities/ID
The XML of the vendor certification priority that you want to modify is retrieved.
To add a vendor certification priority to a group, add a <PriorityGroup> tag to the vendor certification.
Example:
In this example, the vendor certification priority is added to the group entitled "F5".
<CertificationOrder><CollectionID>167</CollectionID>
Important! Proper XML for the <VendorCertID> tag is written on a single line, and excludes spaces and carriage returns. Failure to follow this guideline causes the vendor certification priority to fail.
(Optional) To add a single vendor certification priority to multiple groups, separate the group names using commas.
Example:
<PriorityGroup>F5, Huawei</PriorityGroup>
Remove the <ID> and <MetricFamilyID> tags from the vendor certification priority XML.
Run a PUT REST call on the following URL to import the new XML file:
http://da_host:8581/rest/vendorpriorities/ID
ID
Specifies the ID of the vendor certification priority.
CA Performance Management rediscovers all devices that support the metric family.