Chapter 5 Administering Groups - Cisco CISCOWORKS COMMON SERVICES 3.0 User Manual

Administering Groups
The Groups feature in Common Services helps you to group devices managed by
CiscoWorks applications. It helps in creating, managing, and sharing groups of
devices. The groups created using this feature are shared across applications. The
groups created in applications can also be viewed from Common Services too.
The following components constitute this feature:
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Group Server:
Manages groups of devices. It helps you to create, edit, delete, and refresh
groups. It interfaces with an application service adapter (ASA) to evaluate
group rules and retrieve devices of a particular group.
Application Service Adapters (ASAs):
Application-specific information repository that serves as source of the
devices and attributes that are grouped by the Groups Server. For Common
Services, Device and Credential Repository (DCR) acts as the ASA. See
Chapter 4, "Managing Device and Credentials"
DCR.
Group Admin:
Allows you to interact with the Group Server to create and manipulate groups
using Group Admin.
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User Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services
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