General groups

Group your resources, such as the storage systems with lease agreements that end in the current year, so that you can view information about the resources at one location in the GUI.

Organizing your resources into general groups can be helpful in the following situations:
  • When you want to receive alert notifications about changes for a subset of the resources of a particular type. For example, you want to detect when the ports that are used for replication on your SAN Volume Controller have insufficient buffer-to-buffer credit. You do not want the alerts to apply to other ports on your SAN Volume Controller. You can group the ports that are used for replication and then define alerts for the group.
  • When you want to quickly view information about the resources that are used by your critical business applications. For example, in your environment you have storage systems that are used by production applications and other storage systems that are used by noncritical test applications. You can add all the storage systems that are used by the production applications to a general group.
  • When you want to view information about subsets of the resources of a particular type. For example, you have the following groups of ports on your SAN Volume Controller:
    • Ports that are used for inter-node communication
    • Ports that are used for host I/O exchanges
    You can create separate general groups for the two sets of ports and quickly view information about the specific ports in each of the groups.

General group hierarchies

Organizing resources into general groups and their subgroups can be helpful when you want to quickly view information about a group of resources, but you also want to view information about subgroups of resources within the group.

Only top-level groups in the general group hierarchy are shown on the General Groups page. If the general group has a subgroup, the name of the subgroup is shown in the Subgroups column. If the general group has more than one subgroup, click the number of groups in the Subgroups column to view the subgroups.