3.4 Working with Groups

The Groups node contains user-defined collections of servers. Use groups to logically group servers by location, function, application, and so on. Groups can be created, deleted, and nested. Servers can belong to more than one group.

3.4.1 Creating a Group

  1. In the Data Center Explorer, right-click Groups and click Create Group.

    The Create Group dialog box is displayed.

  2. Type a Group Name.

  3. Click OK.

    The group is created and ready for servers to be copied to it.

3.4.2 Copying Servers to a Group

  1. In the Data Center Explorer, select one or more servers.

  2. Right-click the selection, then click Copy to Group.

  3. Click the desired group on the submenu that is displayed.

    The server is displayed under the selected group in the Data Center Explorer.

You can also drag servers from under the All, Filtered or Sites node and drop them on an existing group to copy them to that group.

3.4.3 Deleting a Server from a Group

  1. In the Data Center Explorer, do one of the following:

    • Right-click the server you want to delete, then click Delete.

    • Select the server you want to delete, then press the Delete key.

    A confirmation dialog box is displayed.

  2. (Optional) To permanently remove the monitoring data for the server when it is deleted from the group, select Delete <server> and associated monitoring data from the database.

  3. Click Delete.

    The server is removed from the group in the Data Center Explorer.