Control Center uses management groups to manage a group of physical computers or logical servers. A management group consists of at least one member that specifies the managed objects that belong to that management group.
A management group member can be:
A view in a QDB. For example, the NT view.
A server group within a view of a QDB. Use the Operator Console to add a server group to a view. You cannot create server groups in the Control Center console.
A rule that describes the physical computers or logical servers you want. For example, Exchange Servers with more than 2 GB of physical memory. For more information, see Section 4.3, Working with Management Groups.
One or more agent computers that are part of the ad hoc computer list.
The Control Center console provides the following default management groups:
Master displays all of the physical computers that Control Center manages. A computer can appear in more than one management group.
AM Logical Servers is a container for the following management groups:
All Logical Servers displays all physical computers and logical servers that Control Center manages.
Databases displays all SQL Server and Oracle databases that Control Center manages.
Network Devices displays all network devices that Control Center manages.
Virtual Infrastructure displays the following resources that Control Center manages:
ESX hosts
Virtual machines
Datacenters
Clusters
Datastores
Datastore clusters
Unlike other management groups, the AM Logical Servers container does not display the cumulative worst open event status icon for its members. Instead, the sub-groups in the container display the icon.
A logical server can appear in more than one management group. In addition, if a logical server is a child object of a physical computer or another logical server and a management group also includes the physical computer or parent logical server, the child logical server appears as a top-level object and again as a child object of its parent. For example, in the All Logical Servers management group, the master database in the QDB appears as a top-level object and as a child object of the host SQL Server.
After you install and discover an agent, Control Center automatically displays the agent in the Master management group. If you configure Control Center to manage more than one QDB, the Master management group displays all of the managed computers in all of the QDBs.
Using Control Center’s group-based permissions, you can configure permissions on a management group.
Configure additional management groups to select physical computers or logical servers based on the resources you want to monitor. After you identify the computers or logical servers, configure a monitoring policy to automatically monitor those resources. For more information, see Section 7.0, Monitoring by Policy.