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The Grouping Manager
This chapter describes how to use the Grouping Manager to do the following:
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Create new groups
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Create new user or host resources
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Add resources or groups to a parent group
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Define relationships between resources
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Add attributes to a resource or a group
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Search for resources
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Import users and hosts from Windows Domain Controller, NIS, an LDAP directory, or a file
Overview of the Grouping Manager
The Grouping Manager allows you to collect network “resources” (devices, ports, users, hosts, and
VLANs) into groups that can be manipulated or managed as a single entity.
A group is a hierarchical collection of resources that have been grouped together for some common
purpose. A group can contain individual resources as well as other (subordinate) groups. Groups
(except for Device Groups) are not exclusive—a resource can be a member (child) of more than one
group.
Resources
are individual elements in your network, such as a device, port, host (end station), user, or
VLAN. Device, port, and VLAN resources are defined externally to the Grouping Manager, through the
EPICenter discovery capability and the Inventory and VLAN applets. User and Host resources are
defined within the Grouping module, either by importing the information from an external source (such
as an LDAP directory, NT Domain Controller, NIS server, or a file) or by creating the resources within
the grouping module. A group can also be considered a “resource” when it is used as an entity in the
same way as an individual resource would be used—such as in a Policy definition within the EPICenter
Policy Manager, an optional, separately-licensed product.
With the exception of Device Groups and Port Groups, the group and resource definitions you create
through the Grouping applet are primarily useful within the Policy Manager. For more information on
how groups are used within that application, see the EPICenter Policy Manager Software User Guide.
Summary of Contents for EPICenter 4.1
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