Groups - Introduction

Groups are a useful way to organise all the servers within an enterprise. ServerAssist is shipped with a number of pre-defined groups that fit most enterprises, and further groups can be defined to meet specific requirements. Typically, groups are created to arrange systems by technical, commercial and geographic criteria, with any single system possibly residing within a number of groups.

The group summary report displays consolidated key indicators across the systems in each group, and displays a grid of status information, together with metrics underlying that information.

Should a group indicator show a problem, it is possible to drill down to the network overview report for the group, which displays all the systems within the group and their individual status. A further drill down to an individual system's dashboard can be used to examine a particular group member in detail.

Other reporting at the group level is very similar to the network overviews for the whole network, with the group providing a way to focus on a restricted number of systems.