Creating managed unit groups

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Organize managed units into groups and then take actions on those groups.

About this task

Managed unit groups allow you to organize managed units into meaningful groups and then take actions on those groups. For example, you might create managed unit groups for specific unit types, geographies, or lines of business. Actions you might take include installing policies or distributing patches or configurations to a group of managed units.

Guardium® has two predefined groups that account for all managed units: All Aggregators, and All Collectors. When you add a managed unit to your system, it is automatically added to one of these groups. These two groups are mutually exclusive.

When you restore a unit from the backup taken from the different environment that contains appliances that are not registered to the new restored system, go to the Managed Unit Groups page in the new environment and modify the groups accordingly. If there are distributed reports based on these groups, they are corrected automatically when you save the changes in the Managed Unit groups page.

Procedure

  1. Open a new page to create the group:
    • Click Manage > Central Management > Managed Unit Groups.
  2. Click New to create a new managed unit group or Edit to edit an existing group.
  3. In the Create new managed unit group dialog, type a name for the group in the Group name field.
    Recommendation: To ensure compatibility with other Guardium components, do not use spaces or special characters in group names.
  4. Use the checkbox icons to select managed units to include in the group.
  5. When you have finished selecting managed units to include in the group, click Save.
    The new managed unit group is saved and appears on the Managed Unit Groups page.
  6. Optionally, from the Managed Unit Groups page, click the plus box icon to expand a group and view its managed units.

Results

Once defined, a managed unit group is available from the Manage > Central Management > Central Management page, the Manage > Central Management > Distribute Configuration Profiles page, as a managed unit group within the Manage > Central Management > Enterprise Load Balance > Associate S-TAPs and Managed Units tool, and in other locations where managed unit groups are used.