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Create a Site Group

Site groups are custom groups that are based on physical locations, such as a city, region, office, or campus. They include Time Zone and Business Hours parameters to let you precisely filter data from business-critical times of day.

Create site groups under the All Groups node in the Groups tree, or within an existing custom or site group. You cannot add a group to a system group, whose read-only status is indicated by a lock icon.

Site groups can contain subgroups. Create a hierarchical structure that helpfully reflects the geography and architecture of your IT infrastructure.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in as a user with the required administrative role rights.
2. Navigate to the Manage Groups page.

   The page displays current groups in a tree structure.

3. Expand nodes in the Groups tree to find the location where you want to place the new group.
4. Right-click, and select Add New Group.

   The Add Group window opens.

5. Supply values for the following parameters:

   Group Name

   Specifies a name for the group. Do not use the following special characters in group names: /&\,%.

   Description

   (Optional) Helps you identify the group.

6. Select Site from the Group Type list.

   The Location and Time Zone fields appear.

7. Type the name of the geographical location that this site group represents.

   Use a physical location so that you can coordinate the managed items in this group with their appropriate time zone.

   Note: This name appears in data views to describe the site group.

8. Select a time zone for this site group from the list.

   Note: Time zones that are offset from UTC by a half-hour and a quarter-hour are not supported. Select the nearest full-hour time zone.

   The Business Hours parameter is enabled.

9. Select a custom business-hours definition from the list. Business-hours definitions are created in a separate procedure.
10. Click Save.

    The new site group appears in the Groups tree.

11. Continue creating the site groups that are required to represent all of the distinct sites or time zones in your enterprise.

    A site group contains no items until you add them. You have two options for adding items to a custom group:

    • Manually populate the group by adding items in the Manage Groups interface.
    • Create rules to manage group membership.

More information:

Create a Custom Group

Types of Groups