Groups

Groups are collections of Clients. They assist in Site management by enabling you to organize and view Clients that have related attributes, and by enabling you to select multiple Clients when you perform operations.

To display the members of the group, select its entry in the Custom Groups folder. The Clients currently belonging to the group are listed in the Clients view.

Vector AM supports two types of group:

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Fixed Groups contain Clients that have been manually selected by Console users. They can contain any combination of Clients, but they can only be updated manually.

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Dynamic Groups enable you to select Client PCs based on the attributes stored in the Site database. They contain Clients that meet the SQL-based criteria specified in the group definition. Use them when you want Vector AM to update the group members whenever the group is used.

When you create a group, you must choose whether its membership will be fixed or dynamic. If you choose a fixed group, you must add Clients to it manually. If you choose a dynamic group, you must specify the Client attributes that will be used to select the group members.

Working with Groups

All groups are listed in the Clients folder. It contains:

    All Clients

    Custom Groups

    Offline Areas

    Active Directory

Only groups in the Custom Groups folder are editable. You can add groups to this folder, and modify or delete existing groups.

Related Topics

Creating Groups

Groups Shortcut Menu

Importing and Exporting Groups

Managing Clients