Administrator's Guide

Schedule Manager Screen
Configuring Surveillance Groups
Chapter 5
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Configuring Surveillance Groups
Surveillance groups are the building blocks of surveillance schedules. They are made up
of one or more detection templates.
The predefined surveillance groups, distributed with HP-UX HIDS, are read-only. They
may be copied but not resaved or deleted. If you modify one, you can only save the
changes under a new name. They are listed in “Predefined Surveillance Schedules and
Groups” on page 81.
Creating a New Surveillance Group
To create a new surveillance group
Step 1. Go to the Configure tab of the Schedule Manager screen.
Step 2. Create a name for the new surveillance group.
a. Click the New button on the Surveillance Groups panel. This opens the New
Surveillance Group dialog box (Figure 5-5).
Figure 5-5 New Surveillance Group Dialog
b. Enter a name in the input field. Valid characters are alphanumeric and underscore;
the first character must be alphanumeric. Schedule names are case-sensitive. If you
include invalid characters, you will be prompted to have them replaced with
underscores.
c. Click OK to accept it. Click Cancel to exit instead.
A new group is initialized with no templates selected. All template properties have their
default values.
Step 3. To set up the new group, use the steps in “Modifying a Surveillance Group” on page 68.
Copying a Surveillance Group
If a current surveillance group is similar to what you want, you can copy the old one and
change the copy. For example, if you wanted a group to run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
to Friday and 24 hours a day Saturday and Sunday, you could copy the Monday to Friday
group and set a different timetable in the Saturday-Sunday group.
To copy a surveillance group
Step 1. Go to the Configure tab of the Schedule Manager screen.
Step 2. Select the group you want to copy in the Surveillance Groups panel.