Creating a Child Device Group

Child device groups should only contain devices belonging to their parent group. Creating a child device group of the top-level group “Routing” and using a device group criteria regular expression to filter other devices (e.g., firewalls) will result in an empty device group.

The group membership criteria statements built into each device group, respectively:

$Assurance > 75 and $vendor eq "Cisco" and $type in ["Router","Switch-Router"]

$Assurance > 75 and $vendor eq "Juniper" and $type in ["Router","Switch-Router"]

To create a new child device group, complete the following:

1. Click the Settings icon > Setup > Collection and Groups > Groups.
2. Right-click a device group and select Add > Child from the shortcut menu.
   The Add Device Group dialog appears.
3. Select either Basic or Extended. By default, Basic is selected. For more information about extended device groups, see Creating Extended Device Groups.
4. In the Parent ID field, NetMRI automatically sets the ID of the parent group.
5. Enter a Name for the new child group. The group name is shown in all group-related displays and reports, so the group name should be meaningful without being too long.
6. Enter a Membership Criteria regular expression. For more information, see Understanding Device Group Membership Criteria.
7. Click Save & Close or Save & New.