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 Oracle tablespaces related to an Accounting application, create a Tablespace Group named Accounting and populate that group with the individual tablespaces owned by that application. Then, whenever you want to collect information about those tablespaces, you can simply select the Tablespace Group named Accounting when defining a Monitoring job. As tablespaces are added or removed from the application, you can simply update the Accounting Tablespace Group to reflect those changes.
The following table lists and describes the types of groups you can create in Tivoli Storage Resource Manager.
Group |
Why use this group? |
Examples |
Computer Groups |
Include Computer Groups in a Monitoring job to monitor RDBMS space usage on computers that are related to each other or belong to a common group such as a department, a location, a territory, level of importance, etc.
A computer can belong to one Computer Group only. |
Examples of Computer Groups:
Sales, Accounting, Development, IT, Midwest, East Coast, West Coast, Executive, etc.
Note: the Computer Groups you define in Tivoli Storage Resource Manager for Databases will also available in Tivoli Storage Resource Manager, and vice versa. |
Database-Tablespace Groups |
Include Database-Tablespace Groups in a Monitoring job to monitor entire databases or tablespaces (depending on the RDBMS) across multiple instances.
A database or tablespace can belong to one Database-Tablespace Group only. |
Examples of Database-Tablespace Groups:
System Databases/Tablespaces, databases related to a specific application or applications, etc. |
Table Groups |
Include Table Groups in a Monitoring job to monitor a set of related tables.
You can include a table in multiple Table Groups. |
Examples of Table Groups:
Tables that are related to a specific application or applications, tables that are the most volatile (have the greatest growth), etc. |
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The following sub nodes represent the types of groups you can create: