Creating a general group hierarchy

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.

About this task

In this scenario, you want to monitor all the ports on your SAN Volume Controller but you also want to separately monitor the following subsets of ports on the SAN Volume Controller:
  • Ports that are used for inter-node communication
  • Ports that are used for host I/O exchanges
To add the ports to a general group hierarchy, complete the following steps:
  1. Add the ports that are used for inter-node communication to a general group, SVC Inter Node Ports.
  2. Add the ports that are used for host I/O exchanges to another general group, SVC Host I/O Ports.
  3. Add the groups as subgroups of a parent general group, SVC All Ports.

You can now quickly view information about the resources in the hierarchy on the details page for the general groups.

When you view the SVC Inter Node Ports or SVC Host I/O Ports groups, you see information about the specific ports that are members of that subgroup.

When you view the parent group, SVC All Ports, you see information about the ports that are members of the parent group and also the ports in the subgroups.