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Groups
Introducing Groups
Groups manager provides functionality and screens that let you manage groups of resources in your
network. Group Operations let you select groups of resources, then use the optional
Group
Operations Manager
to manage those resources.
Certain dynamic groups are seeded by installing this software. For example
All Devices is a dynamic
group containing all resources. Similarly, discovery automatically produces vendor groups for all
discovered resources.
NOTE:
You can now filter on group membership in Resource Manager when groups are configured before the
filtering operation.
Figure 16-1. Filtering on Group Membership
NOTE:
When using such a filter, click the command button (...) to select one or more groups, and use the red “X”
to delete a selected group. The operators are in and not in.
Groups Manager
This Manager lets you define resource groups to perform operations that act on several resources at
once. Access it from the Navigation Window, or from
File -> Open -> Inventory -> Groups .
Group Manager provides two types of groups,
static and dynamic . A static group stores a static list
of Resource references. A dynamic group stores a filter definition that can dynamically query for
Resource.