Organizing Your Network with Groups and Devices > Creating a Group

Creating a Group

As you manage your network with the NMC-RX application, you create groups to organize your customer accounts and devices.

The NMC-RX application provides the flexibility to organize groups. You can configure an unlimited number of group levels. Each group can contain any number of groups or devices.

To create a group:

1. From the Network Workshop, select any group to which you want to add another group, right-click, select Create, then click Group.

The Create Group dialog box appears.

2. Set the group parameters (Table 20).
   
   
   Table 20: Group Parameters  

   Parameter	Description
   Group Name	Name of the group; may not exceed 32 alphanumeric characters and may include spaces.
   Group Parent	Group to which this group belongs.
   Group Description	Descriptive or contextual information about the group up to 256 alphanumeric characters. The description appears whenever you access its associating group. You can change or delete a description at any time.
   Group Security
   Security Setting	None—No filter is applied. Permit—List of users who can access the group. Deny—List of users who cannot access the group.
   Security Filter	User Name—Name(s) of the user(s) to whom you give security access in the group you are configuring. Insert/Remove Users—Click to access the dialog box that lets you add or delete user accounts from the filter list you are configuring.
   Allowed Users	User Name—Filtered list of all defined usernames

   
   
   

   NOTE: For detailed information about security features, see Chapter 8, Configuring Security Settings.

   
   
3. Click OK.

The new group name and folder icon appear in the list in the Network Workshop context area.