Tips for Groups

When you group applications, networks, and servers for reporting purposes, consider these issues:

Applications. Only include multiple tiers of the same application in a single group. Trying to group application traffic that might be part of several applications at different tiers might yield unpredictable results. For example, the Telnet application might run on servers that are part of different multi-tiered applications throughout the Enterprise. Grouping all Telnet application traffic for a report would be misleading and make the management console data difficult to interpret.
Networks. We recommend creating custom network groups. These groups are beneficial to compare similar networks or to see all networks with a particular bandwidth in reports. You could group networks of similar Network Round Trip Times because they often have similar bandwidths or you could group networks by functional departments such as Finance, Testing, and Development to compare operational levels.
Servers. Server groups are useful when you troubleshoot specific applications. You could create an group including all servers used by the application to look for anomalous performance.