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Managing and monitoring groups

You can create groups in Unified Manager to manage storage objects.

  • Understanding groups
    You can create groups in Unified Manager to manage storage objects. Understanding the concepts about groups and how group rules enable you to add storage objects to a group will help you to manage the storage objects in your environment.
  • Adding groups
    You can create groups to combine clusters, volumes, and storage virtual machines (SVMs) for ease of management.
  • Editing groups
    You can edit the name and description of a group that you created in Unified Manager.
  • Deleting groups
    You can delete a group from Unified Manager when the group is no longer required.
  • Adding group rules
    You can create group rules for a group to dynamically add storage objects such as volumes, clusters, or storage virtual machines (SVMs) to the group. You must configure at least one condition group with at least one condition to create a group rule.
  • Editing group rules
    You can edit group rules to modify the condition groups and the conditions within a condition group to add or remove storage objects to or from a specific group.
  • Deleting group rules
    You can delete a group rule from Unified Manager for DM Series when the group rule is no longer required.
  • Adding group actions
    You can configure group actions that you want to apply to storage objects in a group. Configuring actions for a group enables you to save time, because you do not have to add these actions to each object individually.
  • Editing group actions
    You can edit the group action parameters that you configured in Unified Manager, such as the group action name, description, associated group name, and parameters of the action type.
  • Configuring volume health thresholds for groups
    You can configure group-level volume health thresholds for capacity, Snapshot copies, qtree quotas, growth, and inodes.
  • Deleting group actions
    You can delete a group action from Unified Manager when the group action is no longer required.
  • Reordering group actions
    You can change the order of the group actions that are to be applied to the storage objects in a group. Group actions are applied to storage objects sequentially based on their rank. The lowest rank is assigned to the group action that you configured last. You can change the rank of the group action depending on your requirements.
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