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- Open the Settings icon –> Setup –> Collection and Groups –> Groups.
- Click Add to create a top-level, sibling, or child extended group.
- In the Parent ID field, NetMRI automatically sets the ID of the parent group. It is "0" for a top-level or sibling group.
- Enter a Name for the group. The group name is shown in all group-related displays and reports, so the group name should be meaningful without being too long.
Define a Membership Criteria regular expression.
Note title Note Infoblox recommends using regular expressions for refining the membership in device groups. The topic Understanding Device Group Membership Criteria provides the information you need to understand and define regular expressions for device groups.
- If you want the device group to include collections of discovered non-network devices, select Include non-network devices. Leaving this setting unselected prevents non-network devices from occupying valuable licensing space.
- Next to Type, click Extended.
- Rank: Displays the Ranking value as the default sort order. For more information, see Ranking Device Groups. Ranking value is used as the default sort order for all group-related tables, with the highest rank shown first. Rank is also used to determine the individual device settings controlling processing for each device.
Polling Frequency: Allows you to slow down or speed up the device polling frequency. For more information, see the following section, Setting Polling Frequency for a Device Group.
For Switch Port data Collection, choose from the following:
- Use Global Settings: Select this to enable the device group to inherit global settings for switch port data collections. You can find the global settings in Settings icon –> Setup –> Collection and Groups –> Global –> Switch Port Management. For more information, see Global Switch Port Management Polling Settings.
- Specify Polling Interval: Overrides the global polling interval with a custom polling interval for the current device group. You can define an interval of 1-60 Minutes or 1-24 Hours in the fields that appear.
- Specify Schedule: Overrides the global scheduled polling setting with a custom schedule for the current device group. Existing schedules may appear in the list or, click Add New Schedule to create a new polling schedule instance. Choose a Recurrence Pattern of Once, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. In all cases, you must choose an Execution Time and select at least one day of the week check box.
- Poll Now: Click to execute switch port polling on the device group right after it is created.
Disable: Completely disables switch port polling for the device group.
Note title Note The global or group-level polling frequency modifier described in the previous step does not affect settings for switch port data collection frequency.
- Activate the processing options for the new Extended group:
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