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Group Membership Guidelines
Groups can contain only one kind of object: ports cannot be members of device groups, and devices
cannot be members of port groups.
A given device or port can reside in multiple groups in the Network Views folder, but not within the
same top-level group hierarchy.
For example, you can create a top-level device group called “North America,” with a subgroup “Bay
Area” that has a subgroup “Santa Clara Campus”. If you place a given switch in the “Santa Clara
Campus” subgroup, you cannot also place the same switch in either of the “North America” or “Bay
Area” groups.
However, if you create a second top-level group called “EXOS Switches”, which is not a subgroup of
the “North America” group, you can place the switch in the “EXOS Switches” group, even though the
switch also resides in the “Santa Clara Campus” subgroup of the “North America” group.
Managing Device Groups and Port Groups
This section describes how to perform the following tasks:
● Create a group
● Add a device to a device group
● Add a port to a port group
● Copy or move groups
● Remove devices or ports from groups
● Modify the properties of a group
● Display detailed group information
● Export group information to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
Creating a Group
To create a group, do the following:
1 From the Ridgeline File menu, select New > Group. The New Group window is displayed, as
shown in Figure 21.