Device Groups

Device Groups is a standard tree configuration interface for adding, editing, and removing Device Groups within Unified Assurance. Device groups let you associate devices together to provide common functionality. You can use device groups for navigation, security, command and control, and limiting the number of devices for polling.

Unified Assurance uses device grouping in several ways, including the following:

• Navigation: Making devices that are related easier to find.

• Restriction Grouping: Device access can be restricted and provide multitenant functionality to any device-based function.

• Reporting: TopN and Inventory Overviews that allow applicable comparisons.

You can create hierarchies of device groups by creating parent and child groups. At the top level of the hierarchy, there is a single Root group, which contains all devices. You can create subgroups or children from the Root group. You can also create additional child groups within each subgroup to categorize devices within groups, thus creating a hierarchical structure.

For information about interacting with the grid and form, see Standard Tree Configuration Interface in Unified Assurance Concepts.

This user interface calls REST methods from the api/device/groups endpoints. See REST API for Unified Assurance Core for details.

The UI path for this interface is Configuration -> Device Catalog -> Device Groups.

Form Fields

• Name: The name of the Device Group.

• Devices: Displays all of the devices that are in the group.

• Remove from other groups: If checked, any devices added to the group will be removed from other groups.

Best Practice

Device Groups are essential to multitenancy in that a user group can be associated with a restricted device group. Then, any user in the user group will have access only to the devices in the group. Any devices in children device groups under the selected restricted device group will also be visible.