Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 User Guide

Grouping Devices

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After you add devices to Prime Infrastructure, you can organize the devices into logical groupings to simplify management, monitoring, and configuration. When you group devices, you can perform operations on the entire group instead of selecting individual devices.

Grouping Devices by Device Type

You can group similar devices together to simplify management and configuration tasks. Depending on your needs, device groups can be based on location, device type, device role, and so on.

A device group that you create can be one of the following types:

• Static—Create and name a new device group to which you can add devices using the Add to Group button from Inventory > Device Management > Network Devices or from Inventory > Group Management > Network Device Groups .
• Dynamic—Create and name a new device group and specify the rules to which devices must comply before they are added to this device group. You do not add devices to dynamic groups. Prime Infrastructure adds devices that match the specified rules to the dynamic group from Inventory > Device Management > Network Devices or from Inventory > Group Management > Network Device Groups .
• Mixed—Create and name a new device group to which you can add devices manually and specify the rules to which devices must comply before they are added to this device group. This can be done from I nventory > Device Management > Network Devices or from Inventory > Group Management > Network Device Groups .

To create a device group, follow these steps:

Step 1 Choose Inventory > Device Management > Network Devices or Inventory > Group Management > Network Device Groups .

Step 2 In the Device Groups pane on the left, hover the mouse over the icon next to User Defined and click the icon. Click the Add SubGroup .

Step 3 Enter the name, description, and parent group if applicable.

Step 4 Select one of the following for the new device group:

• Add Device Manually—You add devices to the group based on your needs.
• Add Device Dynamically—You specify the rules to which devices must comply before they are added to this device group. You do not add devices to dynamic groups. Prime Infrastructure adds devices that match the specified rules to the dynamic group.

Step 5 Click Preview tab to view the devices that are automatically added to the group based on the specified rule and the manually added devices.

Step 6 Click Save .

The device group that you created appears under the User Defined folder.

Related Topic

• Grouping Devices, Ports and Data Center