Basic Managing Groups and Dependencies Question

Hi mikeyjay--

Here is a tech ref on Orion Groups and Dependencies. 

DH

Why is that when you add a group within a group, the group shows up twice?  Once under the parent group and then again in the main group list?

I was also wondering about this. I have multiple sites with a similar layouts and I want to name the groups under each site the same but I can't since it says its not a unique name. But why should I be restrained to the group naming if the group is nested in different places.

• Site 1
  • Tier 1 Nodes
    • Tier 2 Nodes
• Site 2
  • Tier 1 Nodes
    • Tier 2 Nodes

It shows up in the list twice because it is in fact two groups.  So it is it's own group, and then a member of the parent group.  You can have a parent group that has members that are nodes, groups, etc.

travis

If they are all named Site 1 and Site 2, then how would you distinguish them?  Why not name them like New York - Site 1 and New York - Site 2, etc?  This would create a unique name for them, and allow you to distinguish the groups from each other on your groups page.  Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but from what it seems like you want to do that would create a chaotic list of groups in which half were named Site 1 and half Site 2.