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User Defined Group

This section lets you create a user-defined group containing various attributes, under the Additional folder of the machine inventory:

Example: User-Defined Group

The following code shows an example of a user-defined group.

<hardware>

	<group name="Biometrics">

	<group name="Retina Scanner">

 		<attribute name="Manufacturer" type="string">Eye Ball UK Inc.</attribute> 
  		<attribute name="Model" type="string">EyeReader 1.0</attribute> 

  	</group>

  	</group>
</hardware>

The following illustration shows how the user-defined hardware inventory file section looks when viewed in the DSM Explorer.