Device Groups
Device Groups is a standard tree configuration interface for adding, editing, and removing Device Groups within Unified Assurance. Device Groups is the concept of associating devices together and providing common additional functionality. Usually this is used for Navigation, Security, Command/Control, and/or limiting the number of devices for Polling.
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Unified Assurance supports non-mutually exclusive groupings of Devices. One Device can belong to multiple Device Groups.
Unified Assurance uses device grouping in several ways, including the following:
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Navigation - Making devices that are related easier to find.
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Restriction Grouping - Device access can be restricted and provide multi-tenant functionality to any device-based function.
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Reporting - TopN and Inventory Overviews that allow applicable comparisons.
Hierarchies of Device Groups can be created through the establishment of parent and children groups. At the top level of the hierarchy, there is a single group Root which contains all devices. Subgroups or children can be created off the main level. Additional child groups can be created within each subgroup to categorize devices within groups, thus creating a hierarchical structure.
Refer to the Standard Tree Configuration Interface guide for details on interacting with the grid and form.
This user interface calls REST methods from api/device/groups.
The UI path for this interface is Configuration -> Device Catalog -> Device Groups.
Form Fields
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Name - The name of the Device Group.
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Devices - Displays all of the devices that are in the group.
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Remove from other groups - If checked, any devices added to the group will be removed from other groups.
Best Practices
- Device Groups are essential to multi-tenancy in that a user group can be associated with a restricted device group. Then, any user in the user group will have access only to the devices in the group. Any devices in children device groups under the selected restricted device group will also be visible.