List Group membership through REST

Products

• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

There are no simple UI based methods to generate lists of Group members for review. Is there an option outside of the UI membership lists to review all members of a group?

In this scenario a Chart against a Group with 111 members sometimes only lists 110 elements.

This provides a method to compare elements present between the Group membership and CSV exports of the problem Chart to determine which is the missing element.

Environment

All supported CA Performance Management releases

Resolution

1: Pick any Dashboard and change the Context to be the target Group. Examine the URL in the browsers URL bar. We'll see something like this as an example "GroupID=12908" at the end of the URL. This is the internal ID the Group is known by within the netqosportal MySql Database that runs under the CA Performance Center install.

2: With the group ID known go to the following URL:

http://<PC_HOST>:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupItemId/<GroupID>/items 

Where <PC_HOST> is the host name of the CA Performance Center server.
Where 8181 is the default port for CA Performance Center. Replace as needed with SSL or other custom configured port.
Where <GroupID> was identified in the Dashboard URL. 

For example it might be using my 12908 ID from my lab: 

http://CAPCHost:8181/pc/center/webservice/groups/groupItemId/12908/items

That will provide an XML based list of members for the Group. It can then be exported to end up with an element list for comparison to report exports.

With that list of elements present, we can cut the same list from CSV report exports and compare them.

Additional Information

The CA Performance Center REST calls require the default admin user log in credentials.