Creating a dynamic resource group

You can create a resource group for a dynamic set of managed devices based on a set of criteria.

About this task

You can create a dynamic resource group using one or more of the following criteria for each device type.

Criteria	Chassis	Dense chassis	Servers	Flex System switch	RackSwitch switch	Storage device
Add-in card name			(except ThinkServer)
Contact
Description
Fully-qualified domain name
Hostname
IPv4 address*
IPv6 address
Location
Machine type
Model
Overall health state
Processor cores
Product name
Rack
Room
User-defined name

Note

For IPv4 addresses, you can specify a single address or a range of addresses, separated by dash or using an asterisk as wildcard (for example, 1.1.1.* or 1.1.1.1-1.1.1.255 without spaces).

Procedure

To create and populate a dynamic resource group, complete the following steps

1. From the Lenovo XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Hardware > Resource Groups. The All Resource Groups page is displayed.
2. Click the Create icon () to create an empty group. The Create Empty Group dialog is displayed.
3. Select Dynamic Group to group of devices based on a set of criteria.
4. Click Create. The Edit Dynamic Group dialog is displayed.
   
5. Add criteria for this dynamic group.

   • Select the operator to use for the group set. This can be one of the following values:

     • AND. Members must satisfy all specified values.

     • OR. Members must satisfy one or more of the specified values.

   • Click Create Criteria to add and a new criteria rule to the set.

   • Click Create Criteria Set to add a subset of criteria rules.

   Note

   New criteria and criteria sets are always added to the bottom of the list.
6. Click Apply to save the group criteria and create the group, or click Preview to see what devices are included in the group using the current criteria without creating the group.