Groups are an efficient way to logically organize, manage, and monitor the targets in your global environments. Each group has its own group home page. The group home page shows the most important information for the group and enables you to drill down for more information. The home page shows the overall status of the group and other information such as current availability, incidents, and patch recommendations for members of the group.

Group Management Tasks

You can use Enterprise Manager to perform the following group management functions:

• Edit the configuration of a selected group, remove groups, and, in the case of an Administration Group, associate or disassociate a Template Collection.

• View the status and health of the group from the System Dashboard

• Drill down from a specific group to collectively monitor and manage its member targets.

• View a roll-up of member statuses and open incidents for members of the group.

• Apply blackouts to all targets in a group.

• Run jobs against a group

• Run a report

• Apply monitoring templates

• Associate compliance standards

In addition to creating groups, you can also create specific types of groups, such as redundancy groups, privilege propagating groups, and dynamic groups. The following sections explain the different types of groups.