Avocent AdminWorks 1.2 User
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July 2005
Components of the Main Console Window
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Task Groups
For task-oriented purposes, Task Groups is more flexible for managing systems. Task Groups
is a one-to-many topology, meaning that one system can simultaneously belong to multiple
groups. You can drag-and-drop a system from Managed Systems to any or all of the groups
you have created under Task Groups, or from within a group to another group, where it will then
co-exist in both.
Also unlike the Organization topology, this is a single-layer topology, meaning that sub-groups
cannot be added within groups.
When Task Groups is active, you cannot view UnManaged Systems. Click the Organization
button at the top of the Topology frame if you want to work with the UnManaged Systems.
Using the pop-up menu
After you have created new groups under Organization and/or Task Groups, you can right-click
on a group name to open the pop-up menu shown in the example below. Or, select the group
in the tree that you want to operate on, and then click anywhere within an empty area of the
Topology frame.
New Group
When you are in the Organization topology, as shown in the example above, you can right-click
on any group name, then select New Group to create a sub-group under that group. Type the
desired name for the group, then press the <Enter> key on your keyboard.
In the Task Groups topology, all groups are on the same level. You cannot add sub-groups.
Therefore, if you right-click on a group name in Task Groups, the New Group command will not
create a sub-group under the selected group. Instead, New Group will add a new group of the
same level.
