Groupings tab
From the Groupings tab, you can view or change the Group Family settings that control the Group Family calculation processes.
During each run, the Group Family re-calculates groupings by breaking up the set of managed objects (scope) into sub-sets, with each sub-set consisting of the objects that have a particular combination of values assigned to the group-by properties.
The scope and the group-by properties are specified when the Group Family configuration is created, and can be changed on the pages that appear when you click Configure on the Groupings tab. By clicking the Configure button, you can view or change the following settings:
- Location of Managed Objects The containers that hold the objects to be managed by this Group Family. For details, see Location of managed objects earlier in this chapter.
- Selection of Managed Objects The rules that determine what objects are to be managed by this Group Family. For details, see Selection of managed objects earlier in this chapter.
- Group-by Properties The list of properties based on which the Group Family calculates groupings. For details, see Group-by properties earlier in this chapter.
If you add or remove a group-by property, the naming rules that currently exist are replaced with the default naming rule and the list of groups to capture is erased.
Schedule tab
The Schedule tab displays Group Family schedule-related information, and allows you to view or modify scheduling settings.
The tab displays the following information:
- Schedule The Group Family is scheduled to run as indicated by this statement.
- Run on this server The Administration Service that performs all operations needed to run the Group Family.
- Last run time The date and time the Group Family was last run.
- Next run time The date and time that the Group Family is next scheduled to run.
You can use the Configure button to examine the Group Family schedule in more detail, and make changes to the schedule as needed.
Clicking Configure displays the Group Family Scheduling page, similar to that of the New Group Family wizard discussed earlier in this chapter (see the Group Family scheduling section). View or modify the schedule settings on that page, and click the Finish button to commit your changes to the Properties dialog box. The changes are applied when you click the OK or Apply button, and can be discarded by clicking Cancel.
Action Summary tab
The Action Summary tab displays quantitative information about the Group Family run.
Use the Action Summary tab to see the following information about the last run of the Group Family:
- Last run started The date and time the run was started.
- Last run finished The date and time the run was finished.
- Managed objects The number of objects found in the Group Family scope.
- Valid groupings The number of groupings calculated during the run.
- Failed groupings The number of groupings the Group Family failed to identify due to invalid combinations of group-by property values. An example of an invalid combination occurs when values for one or more properties are missing from the combination.
- Groups created The number of groups the Group Family created during the run.
- Groups updated The number of groups for which the Group Family updated the membership lists during the run.
- Updates in group memberships The number of objects the Group Family added or removed from groups during the run.
- Errors The number of error encountered during the run.
To examine this information in more detail, click the View Log button.
Action summary log
Clicking the View Log button displays a log containing summary information about the last run of the Group Family. The log includes descriptions of the error situations, if any occurred during the run, and summarizes the quantitative results of the run, such as the number of updated groups, the number of created groups, and the number of objects that have group memberships changed.
The log can be divided into three sections: Prolog, Error List, and Epilog. The Prolog and Epilog sections are always present in the log, whereas the Error List section only appears if any errors or warnings occurred during the run.
The Prolog section provides the following information:
- The date and time the run was started
- The number of managed objects found in the Group Family scope
- The total amount of groupings found by analyzing the group-by properties
The Epilog section provides the following information:
- The number of errors, if any occurred
- The number of invalid combinations of group-by property values, if any detected
- The number of groups the Group Family created during the run
- The number of groups the Group Family updated during the run
The Error List section provides information about all errors and warnings the Group Family encountered during the run.