Chapter6 Performing Administrative Task s
Managing Groups
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Creating a New Group
Procedure
Step 1 Select Administration > Group Management. The group selector pane and
group window are displayed.
Step 2 To create a new group, click Create New. The Create Group dialog appears and
the Search dialog appears above the group selector. To search for devices:
a. From the list in the search dialog, select the met hod for searching: by device
name or IP address.
b. Enter the IP address or name. You can use asterisks (*) as w ild ca rd s. An
asterisk denotes any number of characters in a name or an entire octet in an
IP address; for example, *AP or 172.*.*.*.
c. Click Search. The matching devices appear in the Search Result s folder in the
device selector.
Step 3 Enter a name in the Name text box. Enter a description in the Description text box
(optional).
For information about the characters allowed in group names and descriptions, see
Naming Guidelines, page A-1.
Step 4 To make your new group a subgroup of another group, select a group from the
Subgroup Of list. By default, all new groups are added at the top level ([root]).
Note Your new group will be added to the Subgroups Of list.
Step 5 From the group selector in the left pane, select a group that contains devices you
want to add to your new group. Devices in that group are added to the Available
Devices list in the Create Group dialog.
Step 6 To add devices to the new group, select the group or individual devices from the
All Available Devices list and click >>. Devices are moved to the Devices in
Group list.
Step 7 To add more devices to the new group, repeat Steps 5 and 6.
Step 8 To remove devices from the group, select them from the Devices in Group list
and click <<.