HP Network Direr Software Products manual Device Groups, Grouping Devices into a Device Group

172CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH THE MAP

Menu Item	Operation
Properties	Launches the Properties dialog box for the selected items. See
	“Viewing Device Details” on page 229 for more information.

3Com Network Director applies intelligent filtering to ensure that an operation applied to a subnet will apply to all items in the subnet that can meet the requirements of the operation. This gives you a convenient way to apply operations to a complete IP subnet, without having to manually select individual items.

Device Groups

Device groups allow you to group related devices into a single submap in your map. For example, you may wish to group all of the database servers within a subnet into a single submap. This allows you to better represent your network, and allows you to more easily apply menu selections to all related devices simultaneously. For more information see “Navigating Between Submaps and the Top-Level Map” on page 184.

Grouping Devices into a Device Group

In order to create a device group, simply select the devices that you wish to group together and select Edit > Group Devices. The selected devices will be replaced in the currently viewed submap by a Device Group icon that represents a new device group. Similarly, the selected devices will be replaced in the tree by a new branch within the currently viewed submap’s branch that contains the selected devices. Clouds will appear in a device group’s submap according to the rules given in “Clouds and Submaps” on page 168.

Device groups can only be created within a subnet or device group; they cannot be created in the top-level map. A device group can only contain devices that are members of that submap and cannot contain routers or layer-3 switches.

Ungrouping Device Groups

If you no longer need a device group, you may ungroup the device group by selecting either Edit > Ungroup Devices from the menu bar, or the Ungroup Devices option, in the right-click menu of the device group. This will remove the device group from the submap and replace it with the individual devices. In the tree this will remove the device group’s branch