User Guide

Besides physical machines, you can group virtual machines (p. 305) hosted on registered

virtualization servers. Virtual machines have their own grouping criteria depending on their

properties.

2.13.3.4 Example

The diagram below presents an example of group hierarchy.

Six machines are registered on the management server:

1 - the international sales manager's laptop (Windows Vista)

2 - the server that holds the corporate database and the shared document storage (Windows Server

2008)

3, 4, 5, 6 - the salesmen's machines (Windows XP) from the "Sales department" AD organization unit.

An example of group hierarchy

The backup policy on the server has to differ from that on the workstations. The administrator

creates the G1 dynamic group that contains machines with the server operating systems, and applies

a backup policy to the group. Any server, that is added to the network and registered on the

management server, will appear in this group and the policy will be applied to it automatically.

To protect the salesmen's workstations with a different policy, the administrator creates the G2

dynamic group using the AD OU criterion. Any change in the OU membership of a machine will be

reflected in the G2 membership. The appropriate policy will be applied to the new OU members and

revoked from machines deleted from the OU.

The international sales manager's laptop is not included in the OU but it has some of the data the

sales machines have. To back up this data, the administrator has to add the laptop to G2 "by force".

This can be done by creating a static group (G3) and moving the static group into the dynamic one.