◦Can have numeric characters.

◦Can have special characters, such as an apostrophe (‘) or hyphen (-).

◦Can have Unicode characters.

◦Cannot contain a forward slash or a backward slash.

◦Can have the same name as another group if the two groups with identical names are in different parent groups.

◦Naming is flexible and can be changed on existing groups.

●Parent group: Click the ... button, and then select the parent group. The following are characteristics of parent groups:

◦Can contain a subgroup that has the same name as another subgroup in a different parent group.

◦No known limits exist for the depth of parent groups and subgroups or the number of groups.

●Group membership type: Determines how devices will be added to the group. Select:

◦Manual group: Each device is added to the group manually.

◦Automatic group: Devices are added to the group automatically depending upon the filters set for the group.

NOTE: Automatic group membership is determined by filter settings; devices cannot be added to or removed from these groups manually (Add Devices to a Group on page 117).

3.To set the properties for the group, select the Configure group properties now checkbox.

4.Click Next.

5.If you are creating a manual group and did not select the Configure group properties now checkbox, continue with step 9.

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If you are creating a manual group or an automatic group and selected the Configure group properties now checkbox, continue with step 6.

6.To create a manual group, perform the following steps:

a.Select the device by highlighting it and clicking the arrow buttons between the two lists. To select multiple devices, use either Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click. To move all devices from one list to the other, use the double arrow buttons. You can sort the list of available devices by clicking the column headers, or view more columns by right-clicking the column headers.

NOTE: The columns displayed on the Select devices page are defined in View > Preferences > Device Identification.

b.Click Next.

To create an automatic group, perform the following steps:

a.On the Specify filter criteria page, define the criteria that determines which devices are automatically added to this group by using the Basic or Advanced editing option.

Select the Basic option, and then click Add. On the Function page, specify the following settings, and then click OK:

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