Host Group Management

Host Group Management Overview

Host groups can make hosts display clearly when where are lots of hosts needed to manage.

Hide or Show Groups

Users can choose hide or show the host group by menu as follows:

[Item] menu : show host only and hide the group nodes.

[Group] menu : show the group nodes.

Open Groups Settings Dialog

Use [Group Settings…] above to open the group management dialog as follows:

Buttons [Top][UP][Down][Bottom] are responsible to adjust the display order of group.

And buttons [Add…] [Edit…] will open a new dialog to add or edit a group.

Add, Edit Group Nodes of Hosts

Button [Add] will open a new group dialog to let users input the new group's name and children hosts

Button [Edit…] will open a group edit dialog as follows:

Left area of the dialog is a list of current hosts which is not in current group and right area is a list of current group’s children hosts.

Button [>] will move the selected in the left to right and [>>] will move all of the left to right;

Button [<] will move the selected in right to left and [<<] will all of the right to left.

Delete Group

Select a group to be deleted and push the button [Delete].

Note: the [Default Group] can not be deleted and edited, it store the hosts which is not in other groups.

Drag Group

Users can drag several host nodes to another group node or change the display order of host nodes of current group node.

Users can also change the display order of host nodes when group nodes are hidden.