Smart Device Group example

The example below illustrates how a Device Group Rule (DGR) is interpreted:

There are two HIPswitches in this example, named Campus - West and Campus - East.

There are eight discovered devices, four behind the HIPswitch Campus - West, three behind the HIPswitch Campus - East, and one loaner laptop running a HIPclient.

In this example, the rules dynamically add devices to the group that are behind the Campus - West HIPswitch or devices with intermittent connections to the network, while excluding devices from Campus - East and devices belonging to the Instructor Devices group.

10 include HIPservice Campus-West

The first rule adds all devices behind the Campus - West HIPswitch by using the include operator, the HIPservice rule type, and the selection Campus - West argument.

This rule matches the following devices:

Please note that there is one instructor device in the result, which is a member of the Instructor Devices group that we need to remove later.

20 include [negate] HIPservice Campus-East

The next rule adds any devices that are not behind the Campus - East HIPswitch by using the include operator, the negate option, HIPservice rule type, and the selection Campus - East argument. This captures any laptops running HIPclients that may intermittently require network access.

Note: In this example, you could remove the first rule and achieve the same result. It is included to illustrate the difference between the include operator plus the negate option and the exclude operator, later in this example.

These two rules will add one additional device, Loaner Laptop 1, to the result:

30 exclude Device Group Instructor Devices

The third rule excludes all devices in the Instructor Devices group by using the exclude operator, Device Group rule type, and the selection Instructor Devices argument.

This rule removes the device, Instructor Desktop - 2nd Floor, from the result: