7.3 Understanding Device Group Membership Criteria

Agent Manager allows you to group Windows computers based on specified criteria, such as domain, computer name, or registry keys or values that identify computer attributes, such as the operating system or installed applications. You can also specify exceptions to explicitly include or exclude particular computers in a group, even if the computer otherwise matches the rule. A device group can also specify to include another device group. This control and flexibility lets you match any set of Windows computers in your environment so Agent Manager can appropriately monitor each computer.

You can add multiple membership criteria for a device group. Select Matches ANY of these Expressions or Matches ALL of these Expressions options according to your needs. You can also use Nest Expression and Negate Expression options by clicking the appropriate icon against each criterion you have added.

The following is an example that shows how to set device membership criteria using the expressions that are provided in the Device Group Membership Criteria page.

In your network, you want to add a device group which contains the devices that comply the following criteria:

  1. All the devices that are in device domain EnggCenter.

  2. All the devices that belong to APP1 group, which means all the devices that have device name starting with APP1.

  3. The devices match the attribute Agent Manager - Agent.

  4. The devices with the following device names need to be added irrespective of other criteria:

    1. AntiVirus1

    2. AntiVirus2

  5. The device with the device name GATEWAY must be excluded from the device group.

The following figure shows how these criteria are set in the Device Group Membership Criteria page.