Manage Groups

In order to manage servers, a minimum of one server group needs to be created. These groups act as containers for the servers in your network. NetDirector offers you extreme flexibility in how you choose to group your servers. For example, your servers may be distributed regionally and managed regionally. You can create server groups for each region and populate each regional server group with the servers running in each respective region. In this way, if users on the Western Region's Apache servers are complaining of slow response time, you can select Apache, then select the Western Region, and make the appropriate tuning adjustments.

To add a group, enter the name of the group you want to create in the text box and click the Create Group button.

Notice that the group will not show up in the server tree until actual servers have been added to the group.

To delete a group simply put a check each group you want to delete then click the Delete Group button.

Add Servers to Groups

To add a server to the group you have just created click on the name of the group to see the server management screen. You will see two columns; the one on the left displays the servers available to be placed into the group, and the column on the right show the servers (if any) already assigned to the group.

Servers are added by selecting one or multiple servers. The available servers can be filtered to show only the servers available for a particular service. In order to see the filtered server list available for management for a particular service, you need to select the service from the service dropdown list. To select multiple servers hold the control key while clicking on the servers you want to add to the group.

When you are done adding servers to the group, click Save.