Cisco Active Network Abstraction Administrator’s Guide, 3.5

To create a protection group

1.Select the Global Settings branch in the Sheer DNA Manage window’s Tree pane. The Global Settings branch is displayed.

2.Expand the Global Settings branch and select the required sub-branch in the Tree pane.

3.Select the Protection Groups sub-branch in the Sheer DNA Manage window’s Tree pane. The Protection Groups table is displayed in the Workspace.

4.Right-click the Protection Groups sub-branch, and select New Protection Group from the shortcut menu, or from the File menu select New Protection Group or in the toolbar, click New.

The New Protection Group dialog box is displayed.

The following fields are displayed at the top of the New Protection Group dialog box:

Name: The polling group name defined by the user.

Description: A description of the polling group.

5.Type the name and description of the polling group in the appropriate fields and click OK. The Workspace displays details of the new Protection Group and all of the currently defined protection groups in the Protection Groups table.

Note: The default-pgprotection group displayed in the Workspace is the default protection group (cluster), to which, by default, all the Sheer DNA Units in the Sheer DNA Fabric belong.

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