Monitoring - Groups

A Group represents a set of user-defined objects against which you want to run monitoring and reporting jobs.

For example, if you want to probe all of the computers in your Payroll department, create a computer group named Payroll and populate that group with the individual computers from the Payroll department. Then, whenever you want to collect information about those computers, you can simply select the computer group named Payroll when defining a monitoring job. As computers are added or removed from the Payroll department, you can simply update the Payroll computer group to reflect those changes.

To create a new group:

1. Expand the Monitoring > Groups nodes of the navigation tree.
2. Right-click the type of group you want to create.
3. Select Create <group type> Group from the pop-up menu. The content pane displays a window for defining the group.
4. Define information about the group in the content pane.
5. Click to save the group definition.

To edit an existing group:

1. Expand the Monitoring > Groups section of the navigation tree.
2. Click the name of the group you want to edit. The content pane displays information about that group.
3. Edit the values defined for the group as desired.
4. Click to save the updated group definition.

Data Manager contains pre-defined default groups for computers and filesystems. As the product discovers these objects within your enterprise they are automatically added to the corresponding default groups. The following table lists the names of the default groups for each group type.

Note: Objects can belong to only one group at a time. For example, if a computer already belongs to a computer group and you attempt to add it to a different computer group, the system will remove it from the first computer group before adding it to the new computer group (this includes removing it from the default group if it had never been previously assigned to a user defined group). An object is only allowed in one group at a time in order to prevent it from being counted twice statistically.