Using Groups in WMS

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    I’m starting to get annoyed with Dell now. The documentation is plentiful but poor. It just lists the things that I can see in front of me, doesn’t tell me why or how I’m supposed to use anything.

    I set up some groups in WMS but I can’t add anything to them. I can add devices to the default group but not my newly created sub groups. The “help” tips don’t explain anything, just some garbled message “Note: Device Exception might not work with a new group Configuration due to Policy inheritance”. What does that mean?

    Is there a guide for creating and using groups anywhere or any instructions that can actually be followed?

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    Have you given your new groups an own group token?

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    No we’re not using group tokens.

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    You cannot assign any clients to a group without a group token.
    Group tokens are a must-have.

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    Ah OK. The manual doesn’t make this clear, and WMS allows you to create the groups without tokens suggesting it is optional.

    This note from the WMS Admin Guide suggests I don’t have to use tokens in a private cloud, hence the confusion.

    > NOTE: For a public cloud, the group token for an unmanaged group must be enabled to register devices. For a private cloud, the group token for an unmanaged group is automatically enabled.

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    That note is specific to the ‘unmanaged group’, the place all your devices will go when they don’t have group tokens assigned (defa-quarantine).  Interesting that you could create groups without a group token, didn’t know that was an option.  I guess maybe that would be valuable if you wanted to create a custom parent group to apply policy to a set of devices but also wanted to segment that device set for more granular policy.

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