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Creating physical groups
7 Managing physical grouping of infrastructure devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
1 Creating physical groups
This section explains how various data center hierarchies can be created in the form of device groups in
OpenManage Enterprise where Power Manager plugin is installed. It details out importance of a hierarchy,
guidelines for an acceptable hierarchy, and various types of physical groups that can be created using the
hierarchy.
1.1 Supported physical group hierarchies
There are certain constraints the physical hierarchy must adhere to.
When selecting the Group Hierarchy and Parent Group fields, ensure that you use the following
hierarchy.
Deployment and Configuration guide definition
Parent Group
Group Hierarchy
Data Center
Room, Aisle, Rack
Room
Aisle, Rack
Aisle
Rack
Rack
NA
The following table depicts the supported creation and movements of physical groups within the physical
hierarchy group.
Physical groups
Group type
Data Center
Room
Aisle
Rack
Data Center
No
No
No
No
Room
Yes
No
No
No
Aisle
Yes
Yes
No
No
Rack
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
1.2 Physical group hierarchy attributes
The following table provides a list of attribute/field names for creating a physical group along with a brief
description about each field, if it is a mandatory field, and the supported inputs for that field.
Physical groups hierarchy attributes
Field
Description
Mandatory
Value Range
Name
Provide a unique name
for the physical group.
Yes
Combination of characters, special
characters, and numbers
Limit: 1–255 characters
Description
Provide brief
information about the
physical group.
No
Combination of characters, special
characters, and numbers
Limit: 0–255 characters