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title: "Creating Custom Groups in Operations Manager"
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# Creating Custom Groups in Operations Manager

To enable the creation of custom dashboards and views in OpsMgr, and to allow different overrides to run against different servers depending on their vCenter custom attributes, you should create custom groups in OpsMgr based on captured custom attributes.

## Example

This example provides instructions on how to create a custom group for VMs which have a low priority monitoring level. To create this group, you will need to perform the following steps:

1. Define custom attributes in vSphere Client. 
2. Create a custom group in OpsMgr.

**Step 1. Create Custom Attributes in vSphere Client**

1. In vSphere Client, select a VM and go to the **Summary** tab. 
2. Click the **Edit** link in the **Annotations** section and click **Add**. 
3. In the **Name** field, type in the attribute name — *Veeam.CustomTag1*. 
4. In the **Value** field, type in the value for the attribute — *Bronze_SLA*. 
5. Make sure the type is **Virtual Machine** and click **OK** twice.

[![Click the image to zoom in](images/create_custom_tag.png "Click the image to zoom in")](images/create_custom_tag.png){.toggle scale=65}

**Step 2. Create a Group in the Operations Manager Console**

1. Open the OpsMgr console, **Authoring** pane. Choose **Groups** and click **Create a New Group** in the **Tasks** pane on the right. 
2. On the **General Properties** step, specify a name for the new group (for example, *Bronze VMs Group*), and where to store it. As per best practice, use a dedicated MP, for example, *Veeam VMware Required Overrides*.
3. Skip the **Explicit Members** step, since there will be no objects included in the group regardless of attributes. 
4. On the **Dynamic Members** step, click **Create/Edit rules**. Select *VMware Virtual Machine* in the drop-down menu and click **Add**. In the **Property** drop-down list, *select Custom Tag 1*. Select the **Operator** and **Value** field values to complete your rule (*Contains* and *Bronze_SLA*, correspondingly). 
5. Skip the **Subgroup** and **Explicit Exclusion** steps, since there will be no subgroups and excluded objects in the group.
6. Click **Create** to complete group creation. 

[![Click the image to zoom in](images/create_custom_group.png "Click the image to zoom in")](images/create_custom_group.png){.toggle scale=55}

You can now use this group for creation of custom views, for applying overrides to rules or monitors to make them have a lower priority, for disabling performance monitoring and so on.