Organizing Hosts and Containers With Groups

The Hosts view contains the default group Hosts. All hosts that are discovered after installation of the software are placed in this group. Likewise, the Containers view has a default group named Default in which all the default containers of a host are placed. You can create additional groups in each view for organizing the hosts and containers.

You might use groups to organize the ten or hundreds of systems you have in a data center. For example, you might put hosts located together in a group. You might put containers owned by the same customer (internal or external) or department in a group. Likewise, you might put containers with a similar application in a group.

To Create a Container Group or Host Group

Steps

1. If the Container Manager GUI is not already open, access it as described in To Start the Container Manager GUI.

2. Select the appropriate view from the navigation window.

   • For a new container group, select the Containers view. The Container table is displayed in the right pane.

   • For a new host group, select the Hosts view. The Hosts and Groups table is displayed in the right pane.

3. Click the New Group button.

   A dialog box appears.

4. Provide a name for the group, and click OK.

   The name cannot exceed 32 characters.

   The new group appears in the selected view.

To Move a Container or Host to a Different Group

Steps

1. If the Container Manager GUI is not already open, access it as described in To Start the Container Manager GUI.

2. Select the appropriate view from the navigation window.

   • To move a container to a different group, select the Containers view. The Containers table is displayed in the right pane.

   • To move a host to a different group, select the Hosts view. The Hosts and Groups table is displayed in the right pane.

3. To enable the Move button in the table, select the check box for the container or host that is to be moved.

4. In the right pane, click the Move button.

   A dialog box lists the available groups.

5. Select the group to which the container or host is to be moved.

6. Click OK.

   The container or host is moved to the selected group.