HP 3PAR Policy Server Administrator's Guide (QR483-96003, December 2012)

HP 3PAR Policy Server 3-3
Manual Creation of Asset Groups
Although Policy Server automatically creates asset groups for models and assigns assets to those groups
when Agent gateways or Policy Agents register with it, you may want to create your own asset groups for
assets that should have the same policy. Note that you cannot add existing asset groups to another asset
group. You can create child asset groups of Global or other automatically-created asset groups and then
move assets to the new child asset group. If you want to assign the same policy to different assets, you can
create a child asset group (under Global or under an automatically-created model asset group) and then
move the assets that should inherit the policy for that group to the new group. Before showing you how to
create an asset group, let's take a look at the views for assets and groups in the Assets tab.
Assets Tab
The Assets tab allows you to see which assets belong to any given asset group and to drag assets from one
group and drop them in another. In addition, you can edit the information stored in the Policy Server
database for an asset. If you are no longer using a given asset, you can delete it from the Policy Server
database.
The Actions panel of this tab allows you to view the hierarchy of asset groups, add Child groups to existing
asset groups, delete assets groups, and search for assets and asset groups using a Keyword.
The Assets tab displays assets in two views, List and Details. Convenient for moving assets from one group
to another, the List view provides an alphabetic listing of all the assets belonging to the asset group selected
in the Actions panel. The List view shows only the Name of the asset. The following figure shows an
example of the List view: