eG Administration
 

List of Groups

Large enterprises often have load balanced groups of servers providing web, middleware, and database functionality. The servers in the group often perform the same functions and have the same set of dependencies on other infrastructure components. For a service with tens of servers in a group, the service topology representation can quickly get very cumbersome. To handle such environments, eG Enterprise allows administrators to define server groups that represent a collection of similar servers. By including a server group in a service topology representation, administrators can indicate that all the servers in the group have the same set of dependencies on other parts of the infrastructure. Topology representation using server groups are compact and concise to represent, and simple to understand.

  1. To view the list of all the existing groups in the eG Enterprise system, click on the icon available in the Admin tab.

  2. Then, select the Groups option in the Infrastructure tile. If no groups have been configured yet, then a message to that effect will appear in this page.

  3. To add a new group, click on the Add New Group button in this page.

  4. An existing group can be modified by clicking on the icon against the group name. To rename the group, click on the icon. To know how to Rename a group, click here.

  5. If a group is associated with a zone/segment/service, then, the name of the zone/segment/service will be listed under the ASSOCIATE TO column.

  6. If a group is associated with a zone/segment/service, then, the name of the zone/segment/service will be listed under the ASSOCIATE TO column.

  7. To view the list of components associated with the group, click the icon. The ASSOCIATED HOSTS pop up window will then appear listing all the components associated with the group.

  8. To delete a group, click on the icon. To delete multiple groups, select the check boxes against the corresponding groups, and click on the icon.

  9. If a large number of groups have been configured, locating the group to be modified/deleted would become quiet a challenge. This page therefore, allows you to quickly search for a group, by first specifying the whole/part of the group name in the Search text box, and then clicking the icon next to the text box. All groups with names that embed the specified string will then appear.