Monitoring groups from the TrueSight console


Groups contain selected sets of devices or monitors, determined by your business needs. For example, special monitoring of devices and applications might be set up by building, department, or individual. Your TrueSight Operations Management administrator selects the groups that are available to a user in the corresponding User Profile.

Log on to the TrueSight console and select MonitoringGroups.

The following illustration provides an overview of the information that you can view and the actions that you can perform through the Groups page.

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Before you begin

Before you can use groups, you need to create them. For more information, see Setting-up-groups-to-monitor-from-the-TrueSight-console.

User goals and features

The Groups page helps you address the following business goals:

User goal

Description and reference

Filter the list of groups.

Use the quick filters for group type callout_8.PNG, event status callout_9.PNG and event severity callout_10.PNG to filter the list of groups.

Use the time filter callout_2.PNG to filter groups based on when events in the groups occurred. For more information, see Filtering-groups.

Note

By default, only All Groups, Manual, and Synchronized quick filter types callout_12.png are displayed.  All other quick filter types callout_13.pngappear only after you have customized the groups page.

Search for particular groups.

To find a group quickly, use search callout_3.PNG.

For more information about the search behavior, see Searching for groups.

Change the Groups page view.

Use the action menu callout_11.PNG to select tile or table view.

For more information, see Changing-the-view-on-the-Groups-page.

Drill down and view group details.

For detailed analysis and remediation, drill down into the Group Details page.

Click any group tile or group name to go to the Group Details page.

For more information, see Viewing-group-details.

Refresh the Groups page.

Click the refresh icon callout_4.PNG to refresh the information on the Groups page.

Customize the Groups page.

Customize the Groups page to suit your needs through the Group Preferences menu callout_6.PNG. These settings are individual, user-based preferences and apply only to the Groups page.

For more information, see Customizing-the-Groups-page.

Hide the quick filters to gain more display area for groups.

Use the collapse filters option callout_5.PNG to collapse the quick filters area.

Toggle between displaying and hiding the quick filters area using this option.

Save your quick filters preference.

Set your quick filters (event severity and status) preference. This setting is retained and applied every time you access the Groups page.

Select your preferred event severity and status filters. From the Groups action menu callout_1.PNG, select Save As Preference.

Set the Groups page as the default page when you log in to the TrueSight console.

From the Groups action menu callout_1.PNG, select Set As Landing Page.

Every time you log in to the TrueSight console, the Groups page is displayed by default.

View help for the current page.

Click the help icon callout_7.PNG to launch context-sensitive help.

By default, the online version of the documentation is displayed. For working offline, you can download a PDF of this documentation from the PDFs topic.

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