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4 Device group management

The CLI for device group management supports the following functionality:

• Create a custom device group hierarchy [static only]

• Add devices to a custom group

• Remove devices from a custom group

• List device membership in a given custom group

• Delete group (hierarchical)

4.1 Device list details

Some of the commands requires you to provide a list of devices to create/add to, or remove from a device

group. A comma-delimited list of device names is sufficient however, it limits extensibility and expandability in

the future. Instead, a simple XML template is used to provide a list of devices. A sample XML file format is

here:

. . . . . . .

</DeviceList>

4.2 Create custom device group

• PS> Add-CustomGroup –Group <groupName> –[DeviceList <deviceList.xml | Devices <comma

separated list of devices>]

Input Parameters

• <groupName>: This is a hierarchical definition of the group name that will show up in the tree. For

example, if the <groupName> is „MyServers’, then the group named MyServers will appear under

root node. If the <groupName> is Data Centers/Austin/DownTown then the group hierarchy is built

out as needed

Output

• A message indicating the operation was successful, or

• A failure message