Site Groups

PERMISSIONS  Refer to Sites > Groups in Permissions

NAVIGATION  Global > Site Groups

NAVIGATION  Sites > Site Groups

NAVIGATION  Sites > click the name of any previously accessed Site Group

About Site Groups

What are site groups? 

Site groups are containers used to group sites together. These site groups can be used on their own, or integrated into custom filters for monitors, reports, and jobs.

When would I use a site group? 

Site groups are used to identify a collection of sites for one or more purposes. Some examples of why you might need a site group are:

  • Customer category: Group customer sites by their subscription level, industry, or location.

    EXAMPLE  Create a site group called "Premium" for premium tier customers, "Education" for customers that are schools, or "Miami" for customers based out of Miami, Florida.

  • Automation schedule: Group customer sites by their preferred patch window or software management schedule.

    EXAMPLE  Create a site group called "Patching Thursday" for customers that want to patch their devices only on Thursdays.

  • Access Control: Group customer sites so the site group can be used to give access to technicians who only need to access a subset of devices.

    EXAMPLE  Create a site group called "L1 Technicians" to assign to a security level for level 1 technicians.

The above examples are just some of the common situations that you can use site groups for, however there are many situations where they may apply.

Refer to Groups for more information about groups and group types.

Creating a Site Group

To create a Site Group, follow either of the first two navigation paths described in Security and navigation and click Create Site Group.

Enter a name for the Site Group.

NOTE  The Name field has a limit of 50 characters.

Click the Add Site button to select sites to add to the group. From within the pane that opens to the right, click Add for each site you wish to add. To remove a site from the group, click Remove next to the site you wish to remove. When you are finished, click X to close the pane.

After closing the pane, you can remove a site from the group by clicking the delete icon next to the site you wish to remove. To remove all sites at once, click Remove all.

When you are finished, click Create Site Group to execute the action or Cancel to discard the new Site Group progress and return to the Site Groups page.

A dialog box will confirm whether you wish to create this site. Click Confirm to execute the action or Cancel to close out of the dialog box. A confirmation dialog box will confirm that the site has been created successfully. If the Site Group name is already in use, you will be prompted to provide another name.

Viewing and managing Site Groups

To view a sortable and filterable list of all of your Site Groups, navigate to the Site Groups page by following either of the first two navigation paths described in Security and navigation

The table has the following fields:

Field Sortable? Description
Name The name of the Site Group.
To narrow the list, click the filter icon , enter a term, and click Apply. To see the full list, click Reset.
Sites

 

 The number of sites included in this Site Group.

You can filter the Name column to filter the list by specific Site Group names or parts of names. The Filtered by bar displays all applied column filters. If a filter search term includes wildcard characters (for example, underscores and percent signs), they serve as normal characters if they are preceded by a backslash. For details, refer to Wildcard characters. Click the X next to any filter to remove that filter or click Reset Filters to remove all filters. If no filter is applied, the Filtered by bar displays Unfiltered. The filter selection will not persist the next time the page is accessed as the table will return to the default view (unfiltered).

The table density is set to condensed theme by default. To change it to relaxed theme, click the density toggle icon. The selection will persist across all pages.

The number of results displayed can be specified by selecting the desired number from the pagination control. This selection will persist the next time the page is accessed.

Clicking the name of a Site Group will direct you to the list of sites included in that Site Group. Refer to List of sites.

Clicking the name of a Site Group will direct you to the list of sites included in that Site Group. Refer to List of sites. From this list, you can select the check box for any number of sites you wish to remove from the Site Group and click Remove. In the confirmation dialog box that appears, click Remove to execute the action or Cancel to close out of the dialog box.

You can edit the Site Group from the Site Groups page in the following ways:

  • To update Site Group details, click the name of a Site Group and then click Edit Site Group. Refer to Create Site Group.

  • To delete a Site Group, select the check box for the Site Group you wish to delete and click Delete. You can delete only one Site Group at a time.
    In the confirmation dialog box that appears, enter the number of sites this Site Group contains.

    • NOTE  You can find this value in the Sites line within the dialog box.


    Click Delete to execute the action or Cancel to close out of the dialog box.