User guide

ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 8-1
8
The Grouping Manager
This chapter describes how to use the Grouping Manager to do the following:
• Create new groups.
• Create new user or host resources.
• Add resources or groups to a parent group.
• Define relationships between resources.
• Add attributes to a resource or a group.
• Searching for resources.
• Importusers and hosts fromWindowsNT Domain Controller, NIS,an LDAP directory,
or a file.
Overview of the Grouping Manager
The Grouping Manager allows you to collect network “resources” (devices, ports, users,
hosts, and VLANs) into groups that can be manipulated or managed as a single entity.
A group is a hierarchicalcollection of resources that havebeen grouped together for some
commonpurpose. A groupcancontain individual resourcesaswellasother(subordinate)
groups.Groups(exceptfor DeviceGroups)are not exclusive—aresourcecan be a member
(child)ofmorethanonegroup.
Resources are individual elements in your network, such as a device, port,host (end
station), user, or VLAN. Device, port, and VLAN resources are defined externally to the