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2.14.3.3
Using custom groups
Grouping helps the administrator to organize data protection by company departments, by Active
Directory organizational units, by various populations of users, by the site locations and the like. To
make the best use of the AD OU criterion, consider reproducing the Active Directory hierarchy in the
management server. Grouping by the IP address range enables taking account of the network
topology.
The groups you create can be nested. The management server is capable of maintaining up to 500
groups in total. A machine can be a member of more than one group.
Besides physical machines, you can group virtual machines (p. 310) hosted on registered
virtualization servers. Virtual machines have their own grouping criteria depending on their
properties.
2.14.3.4
Example
The diagram below presents an example of group hierarchy.
Six machines are registered on the management server:
1 - the international sales manager's laptop (Windows Vista)
2 - the server that holds the corporate database and the shared document storage (Windows Server
2008)
3, 4, 5, 6 - the salesmen's machines (Windows XP) from the "Sales department" AD organization unit.
An example of group hierarchy
The backup policy on the server has to differ from that on the workstations. The administrator
creates the G1 dynamic group that contains machines with the server operating systems, and applies