The Group Processing Hierarchy

NetMRI controls processing within device groups by a hierarchical collection of settings in the following order:

• Global settings for network polling and configuration management
• Device group settings
• Device settings
• Interface group settings

If you disable a specific process (such as SNMP collection) at a higher level, then all lower level settings are ignored. This allows administrators to quickly disable all processing of a given type, such as SNMP, without being forced to change individual settings.