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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 30, 2024

Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells.  We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers by their availability to patch.  The cell name doesn't give us enough to tie it back to the application or type of environment that it is.  Today WebSphere Automation does it by Cell, CVE number or Server Name which, in our case, would still be lists of hundreds of servers we would need to look/sort thru to find the one we are looking for.  We must have the ability to add a custom group name so we can then put the appropriate servers in those custom groups -- and then when we select that group see only see the servers in that group.  By doing this we can manage thes servers in the custom groups to be a manageable size as well as group them in way that is meaningful to us.  You can imagine with 500+ servers filtering by CVE number or cell or Server name is not very useful since each list would be at hundreds of servers long . 

Idea priority High