User guide

8-8 ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
The Grouping Manager
• For all types, you can view a list of the Attributes associated with the resource. The
exception is the top level (root) node, “Groups,” which has no attributes.
Resource Filtering
The field at the top of the Component Tree provides a drop-down menu from which you
can select a filter to apply to the Component Tree display. This filter controls the types of
resources that are displayed as subcomponents of the groups in the tree. This feature is
useful when you have a large number of resources of various types, and lets you limit the
display to resources of a specific type in which you are interested.
Groups are always displayed. The following filter choices determine the types of
individual resources that will be displayed within the groups:
•Allallows resource children of all types to be displayed.
• Devices shows only the Device resources within the groups.
•Hostsshows only Host resources within the groups.
•Portsshows only Device and Port resources within the groups.
•Usersshows only User resources within the groups.
•VLANsshows only VLAN resources within the groups.
Grouping Manager Functions
Thebuttonsinthenavigationbaratthetopofthepageprovidethefollowingfunctions:
•Newlets you create a new Group, User, or Host resource.
•Destroylets you delete a user-defined resource. This completely eliminates the
resource from the EPICenter database, as well asremoving it from all groups of which
itwasamember.Thisisnotthesameasremovingaresourcefromanindividualgroup.
You cannot destroy system-defined resources or individual imported resources. You
can only destroy imported resources by destroying the entire Import Source group.
•Importlets you import resources from an external source such as an NT Domain
Controller, LDAP database, or a specially-formatted text file.
•Findletsyou find a resource based on a set of search criteria that can include a resource
name, description, type, source, or attribute value.
•Helpdisplays on-line help for the Grouping Manager andthe ResourceDetails display.
These functions are described in detail in the following sections.