General groups
View and administer the general groups that are used to alert on logically related storage resources. You can define alerts for a general group to notify you about changes in the configuration, attributes, and performance of the resources in the group.
- 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 receive alert notifications about changes for a group of resources that are logically related. Examples include all the servers that use a particular operating system or all the storage systems at a specific location.
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.