Chapter 6 Performing Administrative Tasks

Managing Groups

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 method for searching: by device name or IP address.

b.Enter the IP address or name. You can use asterisks (*) as wildcards. 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 Results 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 <<.

 

 

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