Managing Business Application Groups

Introduction

Business Application Groups can be created to organize a collection of Business Applications related to an enterprise for better management.

A Business Application Group can contain multiple Business Applications. Within a Business Group, there can be several groups.

Group management

Add a group

A Business Application Group can be created and configured in two ways:

1. Add button

1. Click the Add option available on the Business Application home screen.
2. Choose the Business Application Group option from the drop-down.
   
3. Enter a name for the Business group.
4. Configure access policy to the Business group. Users are asked to select the Service principals that the Business Group and its inherited groups and applications can access. The access policy can be changed at any time.
   
5. Click Save.

2. Context menu

1. Click on the three-dotted icon next to any of the Business Groups in the tree structure to create a parent/child group.
2. Select New Business Application group from the context menu.
   
3. Enter a name for the Business group.
4. Configure access policy to the Business group. Users are asked to select the Service principals that the Business Group and its inherited groups and applications can access. The access policy can be changed at any time.
   
5. Click Save.

Edit a group

1. Click on the three-dotted icon next to any of the Business Groups in the tree structure.
2. Choose the Edit option from the context menu.
   
3. The details including group name, access policy can be modified and updated. Click Proceed to update the changes.
   
4. Click Continue in the confirmation box.

Delete a group

1. Click on the three-dotted icon next to any of the Business Groups in the tree structure.
2. Choose the Delete option from the context menu.
3. Type the group name to confirm deleting the group.
4. Click Delete.

Health indicator

The monitoring state of a business group in the tree view is decided by the high precedence over the health status of the business applications in it, following this order: Error<Warning<Healthy<To be Monitored<Not Monitored.

Update monitoring state

The Monitoring state can be controlled for an entire Business Application group by performing the appropriate operation from the context menu of the respective group in the tree view.

1. Open the Context menu next to any business group in the tree view.
2. Click Enable/Disable Monitoring from the context menu.

By enabling or disabling monitoring at a Business Group level, monitoring for the Business Applications under the group and all its nested groups will be started or stopped respectively.

Management operation

Resources supporting state management operations such as start, stop, and others can be effectively managed through Group-level management operations, allowing these actions to be performed simultaneously across all Business Applications with compatible resources within the group.

The list of compatible resources include:

1. Open the Context menu next to any business group in the tree view.
2. Select Management Operations from the context menu

3. Select the desired operation to be applied to all compatible resources within the business application. Here, the Start option correlates with operations like Publish, Active state and Enable whereas the Stop option correlates with operations like Unpublish, and Disabled state.

4. Click Confirm.

The status will be reflected for compatible resources available across all Business Applications within the respective Group.

Access Policy

Each Service principal is assigned to the root Business Application group by default. As a result, there is no way to change the root Business group's Service principal access policy.

When a Business Application or a nested Business Group is moved into a parent Business Group, the parent group's Service principal access policy takes precedence, and the resources associated with the parent Service principal are overridden.