Importing and Exporting Groups

Groups help you organize and manage the Clients in your Site. For example, you can use them to group together and access all the PCs in a department, or all the PCs that use the same operating system. Use the Export Groups and Import Groups options to copy dynamic groups between Site databases.

To export Groups from a Site database:

1    Right-click the Custom Groups folder and choose Export Groups from the shortcut menu. The Save As dialog is displayed.

2    In the Save As dialog, enter the name and location of the export file, and click Save.

The group definitions are saved in a text file with an extension of GBF (Group Backup Files). The file contains the names of groups, and the expressions which select the contents of dynamic groups.

To import Groups into a Site database:

1    Right-click the Custom Groups folder and choose Import Groups from the shortcut menu. The Open dialog is displayed.

2    In the Open dialog, select the file that contains the groups you want to import, and click Open.

If you import a group with a name that matches an existing group at your Site, Vector AM adds _[1] to the name of the imported group.