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Groups

The following is a description of the Groups folder in Configuration Management. Groups are logical areas based on the infrastructure of your company. This might be departments, business areas, countries, user types or whatever makes sense to you. In many large, complex networks, IT managers can often have trouble maintaining a good overview of which computers are used for what purpose, what software is installed where, and what needs updating.

To help you get the overview you need, CapaInstaller enables you to organize units into both static and dynamic groups. You can then apply your installation and maintenance packages to entire groups at once, thereby ensuring thorough distribution while saving time.

With CapaInstaller groups you can:

  • Establish custom groups for organizing computers to match your organization.
  • Establish dynamic groups based on both simple and complex queries into the inventory database, for example, to match a certain hardware configuration, operating system, and/or software installation. (Requires the Reporting and Queries.)
  • Group computers based on Active Directory membership.
  • Group packages to keep related tasks together

The Console includes several types of groups, each of which is introduced below. Out of the box, only the System Group is added in the tree view containing 3 subgroups:

Four Custom Groups can be created, described below.

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  • Static groups - Created manually, with membership based on manually adding and removing specific units. Used to collect units that cannot be grouped using inventory or Active Directory information.
  • Department groups - Created manually and can only hold computers. Typically used because they can easily be added to reports.
  • AD groups - Based on the contents of an LDAP item from Active Directory. Membership is dynamic and maintained by the Replicator.
  • Dynamic groups - Membership is based on inventory information using complex logical criteria, and is maintained by the Replicator.
  • Calendar groups - A built-in system group that applies packages on a schedule you define.
  • Reinstall groups - A built-in system group used to reinstall the computers that are members.
  • System groups - The built-in groups added out of the box, including Catalog, Calendar, and Reinstall groups.