Create system groups in your Management Central network

A system group is a collection of endpoint systems that you define. If you are working with multiple systems or multiple logical partitions, creating a system group allows you to perform tasks on all the systems without selecting each endpoint system. Just select the system group you created and start your task.

Endpoint systems can belong to several system groups at the same time. After you have created a system group, you can manage the entire group from your central system as if it were a single system.

To create a system group, follow these steps:

Open Management Central from your iSeries Navigator window.
Right-click System Groups and select New System Group.
On the New System Group window, specify a unique name for the new system group. You can also enter a brief description that will help you later identify this group in a list of system groups.
From the Available systems list, select the endpoint systems that you want to include in this new group. Click the Add button to add the systems to the Selected systems list.
If you want to give other users the ability to view or change this system group, use sharing. Click the Sharing tab and specify Read-only or Full sharing. If you specify None, other users will not be able to view or change this system group unless they have special authority, which is administered under Host Applications in Application Administration. Users with this special authority, called Management Central Administration Access, can view all tasks, definitions, monitors, and system groups under Management Central in the iSeries™ Navigator window.
Click OK to create the new system group.

The system group you create will include all the endpoint systems you entered. You may decide later that you want to edit that list of endpoint systems. You can always add more endpoint systems or remove endpoint systems from your system group.

You can delete system groups from Management Central. When you delete a system group or remove endpoint systems from a system group, only the system group is changed. The endpoint systems that were in the system group are still listed under Endpoint Systems in the iSeries Navigator window. If you delete an endpoint system from the Endpoint Systems list, that endpoint system is removed from all system groups.

For more information about these and other Management Central tasks and topics, refer to the detailed task help that is available from the iSeries Navigator window. Click Help from the menu bar and select iSeries Navigator overview > Management Central.