A Group represents a set of user-defined objects against which you want to run monitoring and reporting jobs.
For example, if you want to scan all of the computers in your Payroll department, create a Computer Group named Payroll and populate that group with the individual computers from the Payroll department. Then, whenever you want to collect information about those computers, you can simply select the Computer Group named Payroll when defining a monitoring job. As computers are added or removed from the Payroll department, you can simply update the Payroll Computer Group to reflect those changes.
To create a new group:
Expand the Monitoring > Groups nodes of the function tree.
Right-click the type of group you want to create. A pop-up menu appears.
Select New Group from the pop-up menu. The content pane displays a window for defining the group.
Define information about the group in the content pane.
Click to save the group definition.
To edit an existing group:
Expand the Monitoring > Groups section of the function tree.
Click the name of the group you want to edit. The content pane displays information about that group.
Edit the values defined for the group as desired.
Click to save the updated group definition.
Tivoli Storage Resource Manager contains pre-defined default groups for Computers, File systems, Users, and OS User Groups. As the system discovers these entities within your enterprise via Discovery, Probe, and Scan jobs, the entities are automatically added to the corresponding default groups.
The following table lists the names of the default groups for each group type.
Group Type |
Default Group Name |
Computer |
Tivoli.Default Computer Group |
Storage Subsystem |
Tivoli.Default Storage Subsystem Group |
Filesystem |
Tivoli.Default FS Group |
User |
Tivoli.Default User Group |
OS User Group |
Tivoli.Default OSGroup Group |
Note: Objects can belong to only one group at a time. For example, if a computer already belongs to a Computer group and you attempt to add it to a different Computer group, the system will remove it from the first Computer group before adding it to the new Computer group (this includes removing it from the Default group if it had never been previously assigned to a user defined group). An object is only allowed in one group at a time in order to prevent it from being counted twice statistically.
The following sub nodes represent the types of groups you can create in Tivoli Storage Resource Manager. You can expand the function tree for each type of group to see what groups exist for that type.