Groups allow you to manage many clients with a single action.
A group defines a configuration of protection settings for a Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations client. The same protection settings can be set with the Settings Notebook of the client.
A group can have 0 or more client members. All clients that are added to the group adopt the group configuration.
Rather than managing single clients, you can put many clients into one group, and manage all clients in that group with a single action. When you change the configuration of the group, you change the configuration of all client members. In the Clients task, you can filter clients by group, then select all members of a group, then perform an action on all selected clients.
For example, assume that you assign all clients in an accounting department to a group. Assume that the accounting department adopts a new tool that produces files of a type that are not currently protected by the Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations clients. With a single action from the central administration console, you can change the configuration of all Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations clients in the accounting group to protect the new file type.