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Viewing Group Inventory

Topics marked with * relate to HQ Enterprise-only features.

This inventory screen allows users to view and manage a selected group. The screen displays a group's user-specified properties, the resources contained within the group, and the roles assigned to the group. The group's name is at the rightmost of the path listed at the top of the screen.

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Tasks Available on This Screen

On this screen, users can do the following tasks:

To view a map representation of the group's resources:

  • Click in the upper left.
    From there you can navigate to any one of the group's resources by clicking on the resource's name.

To change the group's owner:

  • In the middle near the top of the screen, click Change next to the listed owner and proceed to the "Edit" screen.

To change the group's general properties:

  • In the "General Properties" section, click and proceed to the "Edit" screen.

To add a resource to the group:

  • In the "Resources" section, click and proceed to the "Add to Groups" screen.

To remove a resource from the group:

  • In the "Resources" section, check the resource and click .

To assign a role to the group:

  • In the "Roles Assign To" section, click and proceed to the "Add Roles to Groups" screen.

To remove a role from the group:

  • In the "Roles Assigned To" section, check the role and click .

To add a new group:

  • In the Tools Menu , select New Group.

To add this group to the user's Dashboard favorites:

  • In the Tools menu in the upper right, select Add to My Dashboard Favorites.
    • In HQ Enterprise 4.2 and later, if you have edit permissions for multiple dashboards, the Tools menu will instead have an Add to Dashboard Favorites option.  Select the option to view a list of dashboards for which you have edit permissions.  You can select one or more dashboards, and click Add to add the resource to the favorites portlet of each.

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Sections on This Screen

General Properties

This section lists the properties the user specified when creating or last modifying the group:

  • Owner: Defaults to the account that created the group
  • Description: A description of the group
  • Location: The physical location of the group's hardware
  • Resource type: The type of resource that this group comprises. It can be a single resource type, for example, Exchange 3000, or a mix of types, for example, servers, services, and applications.

Resources

This section lists the group's resources. To view a resource listed here, click the resource's name. The resource's availability is also indicated.

Roles Assigned To

This section lists the roles assigned to the group. Only users assigned to the selected role(s) will be able to monitor this group. To view a role listed here, click the role's name.

Configuration Properties

This section displays the shared, monitoring, and control configuration properties of the group. Only compatible groups that contain a resource type that itself has associated control actions will have any control configuration properties specified here.

HQ often provides reasonable defaults for the configuration properties, but HQ users must provide information specific to their environment.

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Navigating via the Masthead Menu

Main screens in Hyperic contain a masthead menu. Users can navigate to the following parts of HQ using this menu:

Dashboard Displays the Dashboard, the starting screen in HQ, which displays information about resource health, recent alerts, recently performed auto-discovery scan, and control actions
Resources Click the menu name to access either Browse (takes users to the Browse Resources screen, where they can locate and navigate through information about all managed resources), Currently Down (takes users to the Currently Down screen, where they can look at all managed resources that are unavailable), Nagios Availability (available only when Nagios is installed), or Recently Viewed (provides a drop-down list of resources that the user has recently viewed. Selecting one of those resources takes the user to the Current Health screen for the resource).
Analyze Click the menu name to access Reporting * (presents the Reporting screen, from which reports can be generated), Alert Center (presents the Alert Center, which displays a deployment wide alert summary), or Event Center (presents the Event Center, which displays a deployment-wide event summary).
Administration Takes users (with "Administer Hyperic HQ Server Configuration" permissions) to the Administration screen, where they can manage the system-wide settings
Search
The Search box in the upper right of the Masthead allows you to search for HQ resources of any type and HQ users.

Search results appear after four characters are entered in the text box. Results will include the first 10 platforms, servers, services, and groups whose name includes the search string.

Double-click a resource in the list to navigate to its Resource page.

The masthead also displays the two most recently triggered alerts. Users can click the alert's time to be taken to the alert detail.

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Next Steps

Add resources to the group so that you can monitor, analyze, and control all the group's resources together.
Assign a role to the group.

Related Information

View resources of other inventory levels: services, servers, platforms, and applications.

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