Figure 3.1 Creating Smart Folders

Before you set up your Smart Folders, decide how you want to organize your data. You can specify search and Group By criteria to help you group information. You can also decide whether you want to include objects that do not contain attribute values when you use the Group By criteria to group filtered data by extensible attributes. For information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180581. Note that a Smart Folder becomes invalid when you delete an extensible attribute that the folder uses as a filter or Group By criterion. You must redefine the extensible attribute and reconfigure the folder criteria to validate the Smart Folder.
You can create Smart Folders in both the Global Smart Folders and My Smart Folders panels. In Global Smart Folders, you can create Smart Folders to which other administrators can create links. Only administrators with superuser accounts can create and manage global Smart Folders. For information, see Global Smart Folders. You can create personal Smart Folders as well as links to global Smart Folders in My Smart Folders. For information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180566.
Each Smart Folder you create can contain up to 2,000 objects. When the number of objects exceeds 2,000, Multi-Grid Manager sorts and displays the first 2,000 objects only. It also displays a warning message at the top of the panel. In this case, you may want to redefine your filter criteria to further refine the filtered data in your Smart Folders.

To create Smart Folders:

Determine how you want to organize your data.
Identify the fields that you want to use to group networks or define extensible attributes for the data that you want to track. For information about extensible attributes, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911183727.
Note: Infoblox strongly recommends that you use Type as one of the filter criteria to improve system performance.
Create Smart Folders in either the My Smart Folders or Global Smart Folders panel. For information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180581 /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180581

Global Smart Folders
You can create global Smart Folders to share among administrators. You must log in as a superuser account to create, edit, and delete global Smart Folders. All other users have read-only access to global Smart Folders. You can create as many folders as you need in Global Smart Folders . You can also save a local copy of an existing folder, depending on your administrative permissions. For more information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180633.
Multi-Grid Manager displays a list of global Smart Folders in the list panel.
When you log in as a superuser and mouse over a global Smart Folder, the following icons appear:

Information: Displays information about the selected Smart Folder. Information includes comments and filter criteria for the folder. It also displays the Group By rules.
Edit: Click this icon to edit the definition and filter criteria for the Smart Folder.
Create link: Click this icon to create a link to the Smart Folder. The link to this folder is placed in My Smart Folders.
Delete: Click this icon to delete the Smart Folder. This operation does not affect the objects that are in the folder. Only the Smart Folder is deleted.