You should note the following points when you use automatic maintenance of ID groups:

• The same policy can be set only once.
• Automatic maintenance of ID groups registers clients automatically, whether or not there is a password for the ID group.
• Relay managers and systems are not subject to automatic maintenance of ID groups. If necessary, they must be registered manually into an ID group.
• Once a client is registered into an ID group, the ID group job is executed at the time communication is established with the higher system. If you use automatic maintenance of ID groups after executing the ID group job, the client is registered automatically into the ID group, but the timing of execution of the ID group job depends on the client.
  To execute the ID group job when the client is registered into the ID group, perform the following operation at the client:
  
  1. From the Start menu, choose the Register in ID Group icon to display the Register in ID Group dialog box. In this dialog box, confirm that the client has been registered into the ID group.
  2. From the Start menu, choose the Execute Job Backlog icon to receive the ID group job.
• If an ID group is deleted, the policy specifying that ID group is also automatically deleted. If an ID group is deleted by another Remote Installation Manager while a policy is being set, the policy specifying that ID group is not automatically deleted. In such a case, you must delete the corresponding policy or change the ID group specification. Automatic maintenance no longer applies because the specified ID group does not exist.
• Deleting a policy does not release the registered clients from the ID group.
• If a user inventory item that is managed on higher and local servers is deleted or changed on the higher system and that item has been set in a policy in the relay manager/system, the change or deletion of the user inventory item is not applied to that relay manager/system. In such a case, an invalid user inventory item may be set in policies in the relay manager/system and automatic maintenance of ID groups may not be executed correctly.
• If you set an ID group and a user inventory item that is managed on higher and local servers and that has been created on the higher system in a policy on the relay manager, do not use the same conditions as for the higher system to set a different target ID group.
• To create a new ID group during policy setting and manage that ID group by the relay managing the ID, the relay manager/system must be set in the relay managing the ID before the policy setting is completed. Before completing the policy setting, make sure that the relay manager/system has been set in the relay managing the ID.