Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Setup Guide
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This subsection shows the method for setting a policy for host groups.
For details about specifying host group names when you set a policy, see 8.2.2 How to assign group names.
To set the policy for host groups:
- In the Destination window, choose Options, and then Auto Host Group/ID Maintenance.
The Policy Setup dialog box appears.
Another way to display this dialog box is to choose File, and then Create Host Group to display the Create Host Group dialog box. Then, in this dialog box, choose Create the policy for a host group.
Figure 9-14 Policy Setup dialog box
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For the conditions, the Policy Setup dialog box displays a maximum of 260 characters. No subsequent characters, if any, are displayed but they are set correctly in the conditions.
To add a new policy, click the Add button. To change an existing policy, select the desired policy and then click the Change button. You can edit an existing policy directly by double-clicking Host group name and Route in the list.
To delete an existing policy, select the desired policy and then click the Delete button. Deleting a policy does not delete the host group created by that policy. The hosts registered by the policy are not deleted from the corresponding host group.
- Click the Add button.
The Selection of Maintenance Target dialog box appears.
Figure 9-15 Selection of Maintenance Target dialog box
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- Choose Automatic maintenance of destination group and then click the Next button.
The Select Policy Type dialog box appears.
Figure 9-16 Select Policy Type dialog box
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- Select the desired type of policy and then click the Next button.
- In the displayed dialog box, set the policy.
The dialog box that is displayed depends on the selected policy type. For details about the settings in the dialog box for each policy type, see subsections (1) through (4) below, as indicated in the following table:
- When you finish specifying the policy settings, click the Next button.
The Confirm Policies dialog box appears.
Figure 9-17 Confirm Policies dialog box
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For the conditions, the Confirm Policies dialog box displays a maximum of 260 characters. No remaining characters, if any, are displayed, but they are set correctly in the conditions.
- Add the following types of hosts to the host group:
- This item lets you select the type(s) of hosts that are added by the policy. When you select Only clients, clients on the same PC as a relay manager or relay system are not added. Select this if you do not need to distribute jobs to a relay manager or relay system, or if you do not need to acquire inventory from a relay manager or relay system.
- Click the Finish button.
The policy is created and the Apply Policies to All Hosts dialog box appears. However, if you created a Policy type that is a new host, the Policy Setup dialog box reappears instead of the Apply Policies to All Hosts dialog box.
Figure 9-18 Apply Policies to All Hosts dialog box
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Select in the Apply Policies to All Hosts dialog box whether or not added or modified policies are to be applied immediately in the batch mode.
Click the Apply Now button to immediately apply the added or modified policies to all host groups. Click the Apply Later button to return to the Policy Setup dialog box. Clicking the Apply Later button displays the Policy Setup dialog box again.
Note that if more than one policy adds hosts to the same host group, no error occurs.
Figure 9-19 Policy Setup dialog box
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- Organization of this subsection
- (1) Settings in the Group by IP Address dialog box
- (2) Settings in the Group New Hosts dialog box
- (3) Settings in the Group by OS Type dialog box
- (4) Settings in the Group by User Inventory Items dialog box
(1) Settings in the Group by IP Address dialog box
You use this dialog box to group clients by a specified range of IP addresses. You can select batch specification (Wildcard) or range specification (Range).
- Wildcard page
Figure 9-20 Wildcard page
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- On this page, specify host group names and IP addresses. Use the asterisk (*) as a wildcard in the IP address you specify.
- For example, you can specify 172.20.20.* to create a group consisting of the IP addresses 172.20.20.0 through 172.20.20.255.
- When you click the Add button, the condition is added to the list. You can set multiple conditions in the Group by IP Address dialog box. To delete an existing condition, click the Delete button.
- Range page
Figure 9-21 Range page
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- On this tab, you can specify a range of IP addresses. When you add a policy, IP-address\Default is displayed in Host group name as the default path.
- Browse Route button
- On each tab, clicking the Browse Route button displays the Host Groups dialog box.
Figure 9-22 Host Groups dialog box
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- This dialog box displays as a tree structure a listing of the current host groups. You can use this tree to set the route of a host group.
(2) Settings in the Group New Hosts dialog box
You use this dialog box to add to a group new hosts that have been registered in the system configuration information. When you use this policy, you can set only one host group.
Figure 9-23 Group New Hosts dialog box
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When you add this policy, New host is displayed by default in Host group name.
Clicking the Browse Route button displays the Host Groups dialog box described in (1), enabling you to select a route.
(3) Settings in the Group by OS Type dialog box
You use this dialog to group clients by the OS type system information.
Figure 9-24 Group by OS Type dialog box
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Each OS type whose check box is selected is a target for grouping. You can set any desired host group name for each OS type. By setting the same host group name for more than one OS, you can use only one host group to manage the hosts with several OS types.
When you add a policy, OS_type\ is displayed as the default path.
Clicking the Browse Route button displays the Host Groups dialog box described in (1), enabling you to select a route.
Clicking the Select All button selects the check boxes for all OS types. Clicking the Deselect All button clears the check boxes for all OS types.
If you select the Perform grouping to the OS sub-version level check box, clients are grouped by OS sub-versions, such as Service Pack, under the OS-type host groups. However, if OS sub-version system information cannot be acquired, the clients are registered in host groups by OS type. If the value of OS sub-version exceeds 32 characters, the host group is treated as unknown.
(4) Settings in the Group by User Inventory Items dialog box
You use this dialog box to group clients by user inventory items. The user inventory information entered from clients provides the host group names for grouping of clients.
This dialog box displays only the items managed on local server, and the items managed on higher and local servers. You can create a maximum of 16 policies.
Figure 9-25 Group by User Inventory Items dialog box
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By specifying the user inventory in a hierarchical structure, you can manage the created host groups in a hierarchical structure; the hierarchy can have up to six levels.
Clicking the Browse Route button displays the Host Groups dialog box described in (1), enabling you to select a route.
The following restrictions apply to the user inventory information entered at a client during auto host group maintenance:
- User inventory information exceeding 32 bytes is not interpreted as a host group.
- You cannot use a tab character or the following special characters:
\ / * " ' : ; , & ! | . < > ? @ %
- Trailing spaces are ignored.
- Do not use a space in the middle of data.
- Alphabetic letters are not case-sensitive for grouping hosts.
- The same user inventory information cannot be specified for multiple user inventory items that have different hierarchy levels in the policy. Because each host group name must be unique, a host group is not created if it has the same user inventory information as another host group.
When you click the Set on n Layer button, the selected user inventory item is set as the host group for the n-th layer. After you set this, the button label changes to Release n Layer. Clicking the Release n Layer button releases the set layer. If there are sub-items, all of them are also released.
Note that if a space is specified in the data part of user inventory information, host groups cannot be created as specified with the policy.
- On the higher system, if you delete or change a user inventory item that is managed on higher and local servers, the change or deletion of the user inventory item does not take effect on the relay manager/system even when the item is set in the policy in the relay manager/system. In such a case, an invalid user inventory item may be set in the policy in the relay manager/system, thereby preventing correct execution of automatic maintenance.
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