Monitoring groups
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. The BMC TrueSight Operations Management administrator selects the groups that are available to a user in the corresponding User Profile.
Log on to the BMC TrueSight Operations Management console and select Monitoring > Groups.
The following illustration provides an overview of the information that you can view and the actions that you can perform through the Groups page.
Before you begin
Before you can use groups, you need to create them. For more information, see Setting-up-groups-for-monitoring.
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 Use the time filter For more information, see Filtering-groups. |
Search for particular groups. | To find a group quickly, use search For more information about the search behavior, see Searching for groups. |
Change the Groups page view. | Use the action menu 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 |
Customize the Groups page. | Customize the Groups page to suit your needs through the Group Preferences menu For more information, see Customizing-the-Groups-page. |
Hide the quick filters to gain more display area for groups. | Use the collapse filters option 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 |
Set the Groups page as the default page when you log in to the Operations Management console. | From the Groups action menu Every time you log in to the Operations Management console, the Groups page is displayed by default. |
View help for the current page. | Click the help icon By default, the online version of the documentation is displayed. You can also use an offline version of the documentation. For more information, see Setting-user-preferences. |
, event status 
and event severity 
to filter the list of groups.
to filter groups based on when events in the groups occurred.
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to select tile or table view.
to refresh the information on the Groups page.
. These settings are individual, user-based preferences and apply only to the Groups page.
to collapse the quick filters area.
, select Save As Preference.
to launch context-sensitive help.Related topics