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Organizing Systems for Management
Creating and populating groups
Enabling System Tree sorting on the server
Use this task to enable System Tree sorting on the server. System Tree sorting must be enabled
on the server and the desired systems for systems to be sorted.
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 Go to Configuration | Server Settings, select System Tree Sorting in the Setting
Categories list, then click Edit.
2 Select whether to sort systems only on the first agent-server communication or on each
agent-server communication.
If you selected to sort only on the first agent-server communication, all enabled systems are
sorted on their next agent-server communication and are never sorted again for as long as this
option is selected. However, these systems can be sorted again manually by taking the Sort
Now action, or by changing this setting to sort on each agent-server communication.
If you selected to sort on each agent-server communication, all enabled systems are sorted at
each agent-server communication as long as this option is selected.
Enabling and disabling System Tree Sorting on Systems
Use this task to enable or disable System Tree sorting on systems. The sorting status of a
system determines whether it can be sorted into a criteria-based group. Alternatively, you can
change the sorting status on systems in any table of systems (such as query results), and also
automatically on the results of a scheduled query.
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 Go to Systems | System Tree | Systems, then select the desired systems.
2 Click Change Sorting Status, then select whether to enable or disable System Tree
sorting on selected systems.
NOTE: You may need to click More Actions to access the Change Sorting Status
option. To view the sorting status of systems, add the column to the Systems page.
Figure 12: Change Sorting Status options
Depending on the server setting for System Tree sorting, these systems are sorted on the next
agent-server communication. Otherwise, they can only be sorted with the Sort Now action.
Sorting systems manually
Use this task to sort selected systems into groups with criteria-based sorting enabled.
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