Adding and Editing Groups

Adding and editing a group can be accomplished by completing the following steps: If you use the Web GUI:

·      Please log into your account (see Logging into your account using the Web GUI)

·      To add a new group select the Add Group option from the menu toolbar at the top of the page or click the Add New Group link from your account popup menu.

·      To Edit a group click the  Group icon on the left or click Edit on the right of the group that you would like to edit.

If you use the Windows GUI:

·      Please start the Windows GUI (see Starting the Windows GUI)

·      To add a new group choose the Add|Group item from the main menu

·      To edit a group double click the group’s name

This opens the Group Data Window.

·      Name—enter the name of the group

·      Comments—enter a description of the group

·      Status—use the drop-down menu to set the group to

·      Active

·      Paused (this pauses the monitoring for all servers and sensors of this group)

·      Dependency—You can pause all sensors of this group if a sensor of another group is not UP. Choose the dependency sensor from the dropdown list. Do not choose a sensor from the current group and avoid circular dependencies. Use with caution. See Managing Dependencies.

·      Schedule – allows you to select a schedule defined under My Account (See Managing Schedules). From the drop-down menu you can select from the defined schedules.

·      Publish Group – Check this if you want to make the group visible to other people without having to enter a password. This will activate the public URL. After checking/unchecking this checkbox, please press OK. This feature can be useful to provide uptime information about your network to the employees via a link from the Intranet.

·      Public URL – This is the URL activated by the Publish Group option. This URL can be accessed by anyone and provides concise, read-only information regarding the group’s status. This option is only accessible if the Publish Group checkbox is marked and the group is active. This URL changes every time that the Publish Group checkbox is activated / deactivated for security reasons. When no changes take place, the URL remains the same.

·      Enable Alarm Sound – If you enable this checkbox your web browser will play an alarm sound once every 60 seconds whenever a sensor of this group is down.

·      Show Recent Sensor History Graphs – Recent Sensor History Graphs show the results for the last 300 requests for each sensor in the list of servers and sensors. This is a great way to discover problems! You can show and hide these graphs for each group using this setting (e.g. to speed up loading of the main page)

·      Latencies - "Latencies" are used to defer notifications after warnings or errors have occurred. You can set latencies on group, server and sensor level. The latencies for warnings, errors and escalations can be set individually. See Managing Notifications, Latencies and Dependencies for more information.

·      Notifications - "Notifications" are used to send alarms when warnings or errors occur. You can set notifications for groups, servers and sensors. See Managing Notifications, Latencies and Dependencies for more information.

When finished, select the OK Button to save your group.