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Adding a Group to the HQ Inventory

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This screen allows users to create ("add") a new group.

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Tasks Available on This Screen

On this screen users can do one thing: add a new group.

To add a new group:

  1. Fill in the following fields:
    • Name: The name of the group
    • Description: (optional) A description of the group
    • Location: (optional) The physical location of the group's hardware
    • Make group private: In HQ 4.1 and later, you can check this box to make the group private. A private group is invisible to other users, including admin users. You can share a private group with other users by associating it with a role.  Note that the name you assign to a private group is automatically prefixed with the string "private to username", where username is the creator's HQ username.
    • Contains Resources: If, on the preceding screen, the user selected a specific resource(s), that selection determines this field's value. Otherwise, first select whether the group will contain only a single resource type, for example, Exchange 2003, ("Compatible/Cluster") or multiple resource types, for example, some Windows boxes and some Apache servers, ("Mixed"). (Mixed groups enable role-based access control to certain resources.) Then select either a specific resource type or an inventory level, respectively. (The specific resources get added later.)
  2. Click .

The group's Owner defaults to the account that created the group.

Next Steps in UI

See what resources and roles are included in this group.

Related Information

An explanation of groups as part of the HQ Inventory Model

Return to HQ User Interface Reference.

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