43.3. Creating IdM host groups using the CLI

Prerequisites

• Administrator privileges for managing IdM or User Administrator role.
• An active Kerberos ticket. For details, see Using kinit to log in to IdM manually.

Procedure

• Add a host group using the ipa hostgroup-add command.

  For example, to create an IdM host group named group_name and give it a description:

  $ ipa hostgroup-add --desc 'My new host group' group_name
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  Added hostgroup "group_name"
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    Host-group: group_name
    Description: My new host group
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