Dynamic Groups

Presentation

There are obvious limitations with static groups. Static groups are intended for static locations such as countries, regions etc. However, administrators may need to organize devices automatically with different options such as computer manufacturer, operating system name, network subnets, write-filter states etc. proVconnect provides a Dynamic Grouping feature for this purpose.

Creating Dynamic groups

You can group your devices dynamically. Dynamic grouping is a very powerful way to organize your endpoints

Dynamic grouping is especially interesting when you need to group a large number of devices

For this, you need to right click on the group in which you want to dynamically group devices

Criterias for creating dynamic groups

Dynamic groups can be created based on a number of pre-defined criteria: once you click on "Add Dynamic Group" you have a number of criterias you can select to group your devices. The predifined criterias are:

Active Network Address	Processor Architecture
Build Number	Processor Cores
Computer Manufacturer	Processor Model
Computer Model	Incidents in progress
Network Address	proVconnect Agent Version
DHCP	Write Filter State
Operating System and Service Packs	Write Filter Status
Operating System name	Static and dynamic tags 1 to 5

When a dynamic group is created using one of the criterias above, the groups will automatically populate with the appropriate devices in the correct group

Examples

Automatically sort devices based on the Operating system name

Automatically sort devices based on the Operating system architecture

Automatically sort devices based on the Computer Model

Note

We need to stress the importance of the static and dynamic tags to help you customize the way your devices are grouped. A special section is dedicated to working with Tags here