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Chapter 5 Administering Groups
Group Concept
Dynamic Group
A dynamic group is a group for which the membership list is always up-to-date.
Whenever you view a dynamic group, it always displays the latest group
membership list.
Static Group
A static group is a group for which the membership is refreshed only when you
explicitly request it. Between re-evaluations, the Group Server stores the
membership list and group definition of the static group.
Whenever you view a static group, you get the membership list that the ASA
created the last time the group rule was evaluated.
Container Groups
Container groups are groups without a rule. The group membership is the union
of the membership of its sub-groups. If a container group does not have
sub-groups, the membership list will be blank.
System-defined and User-defined Groups
After you install Common Services, you get two predefined groups. They are:
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System Defined Groups
System Defined Groups are automatically created based on the device type
information in DCR. When you add devices to DCR, the devices appear under
the corresponding System defined groups.
Just in Time groups (JIT) are groups that are automatically created/deleted as
when devices are added/deleted/modified.
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User Defined Groups
You can create groups here based on device attributes in DCR. This is
possible only if you have administrator privileges.
