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 |
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Add-in card name | ![]() | |||||
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
After you finish
You can see which resource groups a device belongs from the Groups column on the all-devices pages and the device summary pages.
You can modify the criteria for the dynamic group by selecting the resource group and clicking the Edit icon (
).
You can modify resource-group properties by clicking
.
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