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How do YOU deal with grouping servers within SAM?

This is more of a general discussion than any assistance needed BUT it may assist others (like me) on other means of grouping servers/application templates

For us we are noticing an issue with certain Network Atlas maps rendering, we are in a current discussion with Soalrwinds Support (the lovely Kate) regarding this and below is something we have tried to implement from the lovely Kate:

The home page you have designed has a lot of very query-heavy resources. This is why you see the failure to render, it takes a lot of work to generate the Top 10 lists, and then the status of the two groups. You might want to consider removing some resources to get better performance. For instance, the Applications with Problems resource is redundant with the Application Overview chart - if you click on any category in the chart (Critical, Unknown, Warning, etc) it will display a list of all applications in that state. So you may be able to remove one of those two resources.

We used to run WhatsUp Gold prior to getting SAM installed and on WhatsUp we were able to create say 4 groups:

INFRASTRUCTURE, WEB, MAIL, APPLICATION

Each one relating to WEB Servers, MAIL Servers, APPLICATION Servers, INFRASTRUCTURE Server. We could then move any server into those groups they related to and this would also then have each application that was monitored. Therefore if say any Exchange server/application went down the MAIL Servers group would turn RED. We have tried or should I say I have tried to attempt this with SAM and seem unable to do said function.

Therefore is there a way... and also as the title states how do you group your servers within SAM?

I hope some ideas are thrown my way as seems a pain for me to get this done as I require.

Thanks

Neil

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neilgmt

Hey guess who just found DYNAMIC SERVICE GROUPS!!!

aLTeReGo

Sounds like you're well on your way then. Report back if you encounter any other roadblocks. Oh, and yes. is pretty damn amazing!

neilgmt

Thanks aLTeReGo

Just one question, I have been able to create dynamic groups for certain grouped servers as in new template called MCS and added all servers with that template.

But just wondered is there a way to use dynamic groups to add all servers that say we class as BAU. Noticed you can only add one server per name of server to a dynamic group. As could do with having all servers we class as BAU in one group that when then using a network map shows BAU down when a certain component within a template goes down.

aLTeReGo

I'm not sure I follow, but what I believe you're asking is how can you assign application templates to nodes based on dynamic groups? If that is indeed your question, SAM does not yet support assignment of application template to groups.