JP1/Software Distribution can detect automatically newly added hosts and moved hosts and assign them to host groups on the basis of predefined grouping conditions (a policy). This facility is called auto host group maintenance.

This section describes how to set a policy for host groups and how to apply the policy to host groups in batch mode. It also describes examples of operations that involve policy setting for host groups.

Organization of this section

9.3.1 Setting a policy for host groups

9.3.2 Applying policies to all host groups

9.3.3 Example of grouping using user inventory items