Groups
In Essentials 2007, groups are logical collections of objects, such as Windows-based computers, hard disks, or instances of Microsoft SQL Server. You create a group by using the Create Group Wizard, and you use one or more of the following criteria to establish membership for the group:
A list of the objects' names.
A formula that dynamically populates the membership of the group, such as a formula that adds domain controller objects to the group.
Other groups.
A list of the objects' names to exclude from the group.
In Essentials 2007, you use groups for the following purposes:
Create views for specific groups of objects and approve members of an Essentials 2007 user role to see the views. For example, you can create a state view for the Messaging group and approve members of the Messaging Operators user role to see the Messaging view. For more information, see Views.
Use overrides to disable or adjust the configuration of a monitor that is applied to a group of, or individual, managed objects.