Visara Master Console Center Administration Guide - Manual (Page 105)

Administration Guide 105
Chapter 6 Defining and Changing OS Groups
This chapter describes how to assign operating systems to logical groups, and
how to modify existing groups.
Introduction
An OS Group is a logical group of operating systems. There are no predefined
rules for groups, and it is not necessary that all member operating systems are of
the same type or in the same physical location. They may be grouped together
according to purpose, physical location, operating system type, or even physical
CPU height. The only requirement is that all members of OS groups must be
defined in the system.cfg file.
Event Manager uses OS Groups for console message rules. Event Manager can
be configured so that a particular rule applies to an OS group. Thus, the same
console message can be treated differently, depending on which group issued the
message. For example, Operations may wish to treat ABENDs on production
systems differently from ABENDs on test systems. Thus, all test systems would
be in one OS group, and all production systems would be in a different OS Group.
See the Event Manager section for more details on Console Messages.