Create Sub Group

This section is common to all the editions of IT360 - Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition (Central Server and Probes), and MSP Edition (Central Server and Probes).

Creating Sub Group for Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition

By using this option, you can create a Sub-Group within a Business Service (a Business Service within a Business Service). Sub-Groups help better organization of your resources. With Sub-Groups, you can capture advanced dependencies in your infrastructure. You can group clustered databases or servers and create complex groups. For eg., A huge banking application Business Service may contain 100 monitors (application servers, systems, databases, URLs, etc.,). All the database monitors can be grouped under a Sub-Group for effective monitoring.

To create Sub-Group, do the following;

1. Inside the Business Service Summary page, click on Add Sub Group link. This will invoke the business service wizard. Creating a Sub-group is a similar task as creating a business service. Follow the brief description given below:

2. Provide a 'Name' and 'Description' for the sub-group.

3. Assign individual users to have access to this sub-group by clicking on 'Add Users'.

4. Select the geographical location for the sub-group from the 'Location' pull-down menu. Click on 'Next' to add monitors (network devices, applications, servers, databases etc).

5. Add relevant monitors to this sub-group, similar to adding monitors in Business Service.

6. Click 'Finish' to end the wizard. You will then be automatically re-directed to the Summary page of the sub-group.

7. Alternatively, you can also add monitors (at a later stage) to the sub-group, by clicking 'Finish' after providing Name and Description.

8. In the Summary page of the sub-group, click on 'Associate Monitor' link, to associate the relevant monitors to this sub-group.

   If you need a detailed explanation on Creating SubGroup, refer to Creating New Business Service

Create Sub-Group within Business Service - MSP Edition

1. Creating a Sub-group is a similar task as Creating a Business Service.

2. Create the sub-group for the Business Service by doing the following:

1. Add Sub Group Details (Refer 'Business Service Details' in Creating a Business Service - For MSP Edition for more information)

2. Associate Network Devices (Refer 'Associate Network Devices' in Creating a Business Service For MSP Edition for more information)

3. Associate Servers and Applications (Refer 'Associate Servers & Applications' in Creating a Business Service For MSP Edition for more information)

3. After completing steps i-iii, you can click 'Finish' to end the sub-group wizard process. You will be then automatically re-directed to the Summary page of the sub-group.

The Summary page displays the following details of the sub-group created, as shown in the below screenshot:

• Summary of sub-group.
• Heath and Availability of sub-group.
• Recent Alarms for the sub-group.
• Top Applications by response time.
• Top Servers by Response Time (RT).
• Top Servers by CPU utilization (%).