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Organizing Devices and Ports
Into Groups
This chapter describes how you can use the Ridgeline grouping feature to place devices and ports into
hierarchical groups.
About Ridgeline Groups
Ridgeline has a powerful grouping feature that allows you to assemble groups of devices and ports, and
view information about them or manage them at a group level.
The Ridgeline grouping feature allows you to do the following:
● Organize your devices and ports in a logical group structure
For example, you can create a device group, “Main Campus”, consisting of devices in that location.
Within the “Main Campus” device group, you can create subgroups such as “Building 1”, “Building
2”, and so on, and administer and view status of devices within the individual groups.
You can create a port group consisting of the voice-over-IP (VoIP) ports on all switches in your
network, and monitor status of the ports in the group.
● Establish the scope for performing operations in Ridgeline
Device and port groups are used in conjunction with other Ridgeline features, such as the Firmware
Manager and Profile Manager, to limit the display to just those devices in a specific group. For
example, if you want to use the Firmware Manager to upgrade the software images for just the
devices in the “Building 1” device group, you can display the contents of the Building 1 device
group in the Firmware Manager window, and select only the devices in the group for upgrade.
● View graphical representations of device groups
Ridgeline’s topology maps allow you to create diagrams of device groups in your network and
display information about them graphically.
See Chapter , “Using Map Views” for more information.
Displaying Groups in the Network Views Folder
To display the device groups and port groups in Ridgeline, expand the list of items in the Network
Views folder. Figure 20 shows the display for a device group.