User guide

296 DSView Installer/User Guide
In addition to these types of groupings, the DSView software also allows you to group units in
other ways. You may add or modify the group types and add or delete members to or from the
following types of groups:
• Personal and global unit groups - Global unit groups may be seen by all DSView users, while
personal unit groups are visible only to the DSView user who created the group.
• Custom Fields - Custom fields allow a DSView user to create groupings of units which are
accessed by all DSView users in the DSView system by clicking a link in the side navigation
bar.
•Sites
• Departments
• Locations
A site, department and location may be used in conjunction to provide a detailed description of
where a unit resides. For example, a DSR1021 switch may be assigned a site of New York, a
department of Information Technology and a location of Room 214.
DSView users may be grouped in the following ways:
• Built-In user groups - These groupings already reside in your DSView software.
• User-Defined user groups - These groups are defined by a DSView user.
Managing Units Using Sites
A site is a location name that you provide in which a unit resides. A site may be named in any way
you wish. For example, you may wish to assign site names such as Austin, 10045 Zip Code and
so on.
Sites will appear in the side navigation bar when you click Units in the tab bar and Units in the top
navigation bar if at least one unit is associated with a site. All sites that contain at least one unit are
listed in alphabetical order when you click Sites in the side navigation bar, as shown in Figure 8.1.
To view the managed appliances assigned to a particular site, click the name of a site in the side
navigation bar.