By combining targets in a group, Enterprise Manager provides management features that enable you to efficiently manage these targets as one group. Using the Group functionality, you can:

• View a summary status of the targets within the group.

• Monitor incidents for the group collectively, rather than individually.

• Monitor the overall performance of the group.

• Perform administrative tasks, such as scheduling jobs for the entire group, or blacking out the group for maintenance periods.

You can also customize the console to provide direct access to group management pages.

When you choose Groups from the Targets menu in the Enterprise Manager, the Groups page appears. You can view the currently available groups and perform the following tasks:

• View a list of all the defined groups.

• Search for existing groups and save search criteria for future searches.

• View a member status summary and rollup of incidents for members in a group.

• Create Groups, Dynamic Groups or the Administration Group hierarchy, edit the configuration of a selected group, remove groups, and, in the case of an Administration Group, associate or disassociate a Template Collection.

• Add groups or privilege propagating groups, remove groups, and change the configuration of currently defined groups.

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

• Customize the homepage of a specific group

Redundancy systems and special high availability groups are not accessed from this Groups page. You can access them from the All Targets page or you can access Redundancy Systems and other systems from the Systems page.