HP Insight Online User's Guide

All devices are in your default device group to begin with. Devices must be in at least one device group,
and can be in more than one device group. For example, you can create a child device group based on
function, such as servers, and another child device group based on location, such as Houston, and put the
same devices into both groups. You can associate each device group with a different user group.
Devices that you put into a child device group remain in your default device group unless you explicitly
remove them. After you put devices into child groups, you can then remove them from your default device
group (using Manage device groups > Edit device groups and selecting your default device group), to
simplify what you see in the top-level All devices view.
Device groups can be nested two levels downward. That is, your top-level or default device group can
contain child groups, which in turn can contain child groups.
If you have more than sixty devices in a device group, HP recommends that you move the devices into
child groups. This is just a guideline, to make the management of your devices easier and improve the
performance of the device page.
When other users share device groups with you, you see those groups in your All devices view.
To create new child device group, complete the following steps:
1. Click on Manage device groups in the Actions drop-down menu.
2. Click on Create new child device group in the Actions drop-down menu at the far right of your
default device group, or of a second-level child device group.
3. Provide a group name and add devices:
Figure 3.17 Provide a child device group name
4. Verify the derived contracts and warranties associated with the device group.
5. Associate a group of users with the device group.
6. Assign feature service roles to the members of the user group.
Insight Online creates a derived contract and warranty share (described in Share contracts and warranties)
automatically when you create a device group.
You can edit a device group that you have created or that has been shared with you as an administrator at
any time. From Manage device groups select Edit device group from the Actions drop-down menu at
the far right of the line containing the device group you want to change. You can perform these actions:
HP Insight Online:User's Guide Page 22 of 51
Chapter 3: Manage your devices