12.5.4 Considerations for business groups
If you decide to enable business groups, you need to consider how to manage them. Think of the range of monitored hosts to be assigned to business groups and the necessary restrictions on viewing and handling those business groups.
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(1) Considerations related to business groups and monitoring groups
Consider the following items beforehand, based on the perspective from which multiple monitored hosts will be managed:
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Range of monitored hosts to be assigned to business groups
Multiple hosts can be grouped into business groups. Note that one host can belong to only one business group.
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Range of monitored hosts to be assigned to monitoring groups in a business group
Hosts in a business group can be further grouped from the viewpoint of monitoring the business group. Monitoring groups can be made in multiple tiers.
For details about business groups and monitoring groups, see 7.4 Managing business groups.
(2) Restrictions on viewing and operating business groups
To use business groups, restrictions must be set on viewing and operating business groups.
To monitor the multiple monitored hosts by grouping them into business groups, JP1 resource groups and JP1 permission levels must be set for JP1 users.
For details about the operations allowed for individual combinations of JP1 resource groups and JP1 permission levels, see 4.1.4(2) Assigning a JP1 resource group and permission level to a JP1 user.
For details about how to set restrictions on viewing and operating business groups, see 5.19 Setting reference and operation restrictions on business groups in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Configuration Guide.
(3) Applying the system hierarchy when restrictions are enabled on viewing and operating business groups
If, while the differential distribution functionality facility is disabled in the settings for distribution of JP1/Base configuration definition information, you enable the restrictions on viewing and operating business groups and execute Apply Agent Configuration from the Operation menu in the Edit Agent Configuration window, the configuration definition of the newly defined agent configuration is distributed to all hosts. However, the existing agent configuration is not deleted.
Therefore, to delete some hosts from the system hierarchy, before applying the system hierarchy, you must change the settings for Event Forwarding in the profiles of the hosts to be deleted so that events will not be forwarded.
If you do not change the settings, JP1 events generated on agents continue being forwarded to higher level hosts because the configuration information held by the agents remains even after the system hierarchy is applied.
For details about changing the settings for event forwarding information, see 3.4 Setting business groups in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Configuration Guide.
(4) Considerations related to monitoring in the Monitoring Tree window
After you apply the setting information of a business group to the Central Scope, the hierarchical configuration of the business group and the restrictions on viewing and operating the business group are inherited in the Monitoring Tree window (Central Scope). After that, users can view and operate on only the JP1 events generated within the business groups they are in charge of. For details about how to apply the setting information of business groups to the Central Scope, see 4.4 Setting business groups in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Configuration Guide.
(5) Considerations related to monitoring in the Event Console window
When restrictions are enabled on viewing and operating business groups, a user can view and operate in the Event Console window on only the JP1 events generated within the business group that user is in charge of. For details, see 4.1.4 Restrictions on viewing and operating business groups.