Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Management Groups, Management groups overview

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In this chapter

•Management groups overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

•Product group overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

•Port Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Management groups overview

The Management application enables you to group multiple devices or ports so that you can configure common configurations and perform common monitoring functions for them. You configure management groups through the Network Objects view.

The Network Object view lists the discovered products, default and user-defined product groups, and user-defined port groups. You can use Network Object view to do the following:

•Add devices to product groups.

•Remove devices from product groups.

•Add ports to port groups.

•Remove ports from port groups.

•Synchronize the device configuration with the Management application database before the next Discovery process runs.

The number of devices, device groups, and port groups that Network Object view can manage depends on the disk space available to the Management application. However, adding many devices and groups could affect system performance.

Displaying Network Object view

To display the Network Object view, select Network Objects from the view list on the Product List toolbar.

The Management application displays a list of discovered products as well as any product and port groups in a table (Product List). For more information about the Network Object view, refer to “Network Objects view” on page 307.

You can perform the following actions from the Network Object view:

•To configure product groups, refer to “Product group overview” on page 112.

•To configure port groups, refer to “Port Groups” on page 122.

•To search for a product in the Network Object view, refer to “Searching for a device” on page 299.

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