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Device groups are created automatically. After device discovery, you can find device groups based on the device type, irrespective of their states. Only licensed devices which you have deployed in your network appear in the groups. No empty groups or groups with no devices appear in the Device Group pane.
Grouping devices helps you to display data for a single device, or for a group. You can create customized groups to monitor information that you are interested in. You can view the grouping structure as a list or tree view in the Device Group pane. The Device Group pane is available in the Inventory, Conference Diagnostics (as a filter), Endpoint Diagnostics, and Alarms and Events pages. You can select devices or endpoints from the groups you are interested in, to check inventory details. You can also select devices for polling from the Device Group Selector in the Polling Parameters page. See Device Group Selector for information.
Cisco Prime Collaboration supports groups in a hierarchical fashion. Each child group is a subgroup of a parent group, and its group membership will be a subset of its immediate parent group. For an object to belong to a group, it must satisfy the immediate group rules and the parent group rules.
You can also create groups manually on any page where the group selector (tree view) is available.
Devices in Cisco Prime Collaboration are grouped into:
System-defined groups—defined by the system based on the device type. System-defined groups are always dynamic, and cannot be deleted or edited.
Predefined groups—defined by system based on endpoint groups. Predefined groups are always dynamic, and cannot be deleted or edited. The following predefined groups are available:
User-defined groups—Can be either of the following:
Static—Devices are added to these groups without a defined set of rules. After the group is created, you can manually add devices to it. Devices for which you cannot easily set a rule fall into this group. Only static user-defined groups are synchronized from Device Group to the Device Selector pane in the Polling Parameters page. Static groups created within dynamic groups are also not synchronized.
Dynamic—Devices are added to dynamic groups during group access, based on a set of rules or attributes (for example, device type, device model, hostname, and so on) that you define. You can use group properties to define the rules, and the group is updated when the group rule is met.
Note | The amount of time it takes to create a user-defined dynamic group depends on the number of members within the group. |
For user-defined dynamic and static groups, you can add subgroups, edit groups, delete groups, and duplicate groups, using the quick view. For dynamic groups, when you create or add a dynamic subgroup, it automatically inherits the parent group rule.
To launch the quick view, rest your mouse over the device group and click on the quick view icon. The Quick View details for user-defined groups are as follows.
Step 1 | Click the icon at the right of the Device Group pane. |
Step 2 | Click Create Group. |
Step 3 | In the Create Group window, enter the group name and description. |
Step 4 | Select the group type Static or Dynamic. |
Step 5 | For Dynamic Group, set the rule by selecting Match as All or Match as Any and selecting a suitable combination of criteria from the drop-down list. You can set more than one rule by clicking +. New rows are added. |
Step 6 | Click Save. |
Step 1 | Choose . | ||
Step 2 | Select the managed devices from the Current Inventory table. | ||
Step 3 | Click the right arrow on the Current Inventory pane. | ||
Step 4 | Select Add To Group. | ||
Step 5 | In the Add To Group window,
select the group you are interested in from the Select Group drop-down list,
and click
Save.
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The device group selector provides a way to filter devices. It is available on the Polling Parameters page; choose () to select groups for polling.