BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Working with server subgroups

Subgroups of servers provide you with a way of further organizing your servers. A subgroup is just a server group that is a member of another server group.

For example, if you group servers by region and by country, then each regional group becomes a subgroup of a country group. To organize servers in this way, first create a group for each region, and add the appropriate servers to each regional group. Then, create a group for each country, and add each regional group to the corresponding country group.

There are two ways to set up subgroups: you can modify the subgroups of a server group, or you can make one server group a member of another. The results are the same, so use whichever method proves most convenient.

To add subgroups to a server group

1. Go to the Server Groups management area of the CMC.
2. Click the group that you want to add subgroups to.

This group is the parent group.

3. On the Subgroups tab, click Add/Remove Groups.
4. In the Available server groups list, select the server groups that you want to add as subgroups; then click the > arrow.
5. Click OK.

You are returned to the Subgroups tab, which now lists all the server groups that you added to the parent group.

To make one server group a member of another

1. Go to the Server Groups management area of the CMC.
2. Click the group that you want to add to another group.
3. On the Member of tab, click the Member of button.
4. In the Available server groups list, select the server groups that should include your group as a member; then click the > arrow.

This example makes the Job Servers group a member subgroup of the Northern Office Servers group.

 

5. Click OK.

You are returned to the "Member of" tab, which now lists all the server groups that the initial group is now a member of.