What's the key/mouse sequence to select multiple devices to delete in CA Performance Management (CAPM)?

Products

• CA Performance Management
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

In the "Monitored Devices" GUI display on the Dx NetOps Performance Management->Data Aggregator data source. I can delete a device one at a time. I want to delete a range. How do I do that?

Environment

Dx NetOps Performance Management (CAPM) all currently supported releases

Resolution

You cannot do a multi-select and delete from the tree view, but you can from the search view. 

1. When looking at monitored devices, click the Search tab next to the Tree View tab.
   
   
2. Enter your search criteria (name, partial name, IP address, partial IP address).
   
   
3. Check *only* the boxes of what you wish to delete and click the delete button (note there is no way to un-delete items). 
   
   Note that the list from the search view follows the standard shift+left click/ctrl+left click multi-select convention.
   
   If you click on one device to select it and hold shift, and click another device name (not the check box) it will select the range between the devices. 
   
   To select a non continuous selection, either click the checkbox to the left of those devices, or hold ctrl when selecting the names of those devices. 

 

You can also delete multiple devices at once using REST. It's documented further in the following Knowledge Base article.

KB : How to delete multiple devices in CA Performance Management (CAPM) Data Aggregator via REST API

This details how to use GET tunneling with REST to filter results from the Data Aggregator.

KB : Using Get tunneling with REST to filter results from the Data Aggregator in CA Performance Management (CAPM)

 

What you are doing above is deleting the items from the Data Aggregator (DA) data source. So the items will be seen in Dx NetOps Performance Center  until the sync process runs with the DA data source (if that is your only data source and the device only exists in that data source. 

You will see items in Dx NetOps Performance Center until the item has been deleted from all data sources and the sync process with those data sources has run. So say you also had Network Flow Analysis (NFA) as a data source, and the device was in both NFA and the DA. The device would be seen in Dx NetOps Performance Center until removed from both the DA and NFA.