This document provides information about Location Administration to setup and configure location settings.

Computers are grouped together as described in User Defined Group and Location. The following icons represents the:

• : Locations
• : User Defined Groups
• : Subnet Groups
• : Citrix Groups
•  : AutoSteps Groups

You can read more about these groups in Grouping of Computers and Network grouping.

Location or User Defined Group

You can create a Location or a User Defined Group from top menu or can create a User Defined Group from within a Location as described below:

Create Location

1. Select ADMINISTRATION > Computer Grouping > Locations and then click.

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   For an overview of PerformanceGuard computer grouping concepts, see Grouping of Computers.

   
   

2. Select the required type (Location or User Defined Group).

• Name: The name of the Location.
• Description: A supplementary description of the Location.

Click and the Location will be added. To add computers for these locations, you need to create User Defined Group (see below).

You can now allocate your Groups to the newly created location (see the drag and drop section).

Create User Defined Group

Click or click next to a Location > Create User Defined Group

• Name: The name of the User Defined Group.
• Description: A supplementary description of the User Defined Group.

1. Click . You then need to add Members to the group.
2. Select the computers and click "ADD MEMBER(S)".
3. Click Close.

The user defined group is created and linked to the respective Location.

Filters

There are some filters available when you add members to a user defined group allowing you to eliminate unnecessary data from your search. To remove these filters, simply click "x" on the filter.

• Search: Enter a name / character, and it will search the full list and remove computers based on criteria that don't match.
• IP Address: It will search with the specified IP address and remove computers based on criteria that don't match.
• Operating Systems: Select the desired operating system and filter computers based on criteria that don't match.
• Memory 0 - 128 GB: Select the memory and filter computers based on criteria that don't match.
• AutoSteps Only: This option will only be available to select if there are computers with AutoSteps and filter computers based on criteria that don't match.
• Citrix Only: This option will only be available to select if there are computers with Citrix and filter computers based on criteria that don't match.

Edit or update

You can easily update or edit a Location or a User Defined Group.

• Simply click next to a Location or User Defined Group > Click Edit.
• You can then add more members into the group or "REMOVE MEMBER(S)" that you already have in the group.
• Click Close.

Delete

You can easily delete a Location or a User Defined Group.

• Simply click next to a Location or User Defined Group > Click Delete.

• Simply click next to a Location or User Defined Group > Click Edit.
• Select the member > "REMOVE MEMBER" > Click on Delete again. It will delete the Location or User Defined Group.

Drag and Drop

• You can change the membership of a group or location simply by dragging and dropping it on the location it should be a member of. Note that you can only make it a member of a location

• You can also highlight the Group and then go above in the Locations - click next to the desired Location and select "Move selected items to ...".

• You can also select multiple locations/groups within the parent using Windows technique i.e. hold down CTRL or Shift keys + click on locations and drag & drop them into respective locations.

Unmapped

Unmapped is a pre-defined location for groups you have not decided a location for yourself. Any new subnets or groups will end up here to start with. You can also choose yourself to unmap of subnet/group, if you do not want it in a named location.