Create and Manage Groups

A group is a collection of similar assets under a single administration. You can group assets and authorize a single user or group of users to control the asset group.

Create asset groups based on your business needs. For example, you can create an asset group that contains all electrocardiogram (EKG) machines in a hospital. Alternatively, you may want to group the different assets present on a single floor under one group.

You can control access to individual assets by creating asset groups, and assigning authorized users to each asset group. Let us take two examples of Forklifts and HVAC asset groups:

• Asset Group: Forklifts

  • Assets: Forklift_1, Forklift_2, Forklift_3

  • Users: Manager, Forklift_Operator

• Asset Group: HVACs

  • Assets: HVAC_1, HVAC_2, HVAC_3

  • Users: Manager, HVAC_Operator

In the preceding scenario, the Manager will be able to access all the assets. The Forklift_Operator can only see forklift assets and the HVAC_Operator can only see HVAC assets.

Create a New Group

You can subdivide a hierarchical organization into groups. Groups can in turn contain sub-groups.

This operation is meant for application administrators only. Log in using the administrator account to create groups in Oracle IoT Asset Monitoring Cloud Service. In the Operations Center, ensure that you are in the organization for which you wish to create the groups.

1. Click Menu (), and then click Design Center.
2. Select Groups from the Design Center sub-menu.
3. Click Create Group () to create a new group.
4. Specify a Name for your group.
   For example, Forklifts, for a group of forklift assets.
5. Specify an optional Description.
6. Select the Type of the group.
   The assets contained in a group can be static or dynamic. You can either add assets manually to a group, or specify a filter criteria that dynamically selects the assets. For example, you can create a filter group for all assets of a particular asset type.
   • Select Static Group to create a group wherein you manually select the constituent assets.
     1. Under Parent, select Current Organization to create a group directly under the current organization. Alternatively select the name of a preexisting group to create a sub-group under the existing group.
     2. (Optional) Under Selection, optionally click Select Filter to filter the list of assets. For example, you can filter for assets of a particular asset type.
     3. Select the assets that you wish to include in the group, and click the right-arrow icon () to move them into the group.

        Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select multiple assets at a time.

   • Select Filter Group to create a group wherein the constituent assets are dynamically determined using a filter criteria.
     1. Under Parent, select Current Organization to create a group directly under the current organization. Alternatively select the name of a preexisting group to create a sub-group under the existing group.
     2. Under Filter, click Select Filter to specify your filter criteria. For example, you can filter for assets of a particular asset type.
     3. Validate that the list of results is consistent with your filter criteria.

        Any new assets that satisfy your filter criteria will automatically become a part of your filter group.

7. Click the Users tab () to assign authorized users for the group.
   1. Select an available user, and click the Move () icon to move the user to the list of authorized users.
   2. Repeat the previous step to add additional authorized users for the asset group.
8. Click Save to save the new group.
9. Click Back to return to the Groups page.