Linking to an External Group enables you to manage groups of computers or users that are already defined as a group elsewhere in your environment. The computers in the external group must be computers that are managed by Symantec LiveState Delivery. Computers in the external group that are not managed computers will not appear as members of the external group.
You can create a link from Symantec LiveState Delivery to Windows 2000 Active Directory containers (domains, sites, organizational units).
Linking to an external group enables you to manage one Active Directory group, and have the changes reflected in your Symantec LiveState Delivery group. Because the computers in the external group are computers managed by Symantec LiveState Delivery, you assign jobs to the computer group the same way you assign jobs to standard Symantec LiveState Delivery groups.
In order to update changes made to the external group, such as when a new computer is added to the group, right-click the group and click Refresh. As long as changes are made to computers already integrated into Symantec LiveState Delivery, the changes are reflected in the Command Center.
In order to link to an Active Directory group, the machine where the Command Center is running must support Active Directory. Active Directory is supported by Windows 2000 machines that have the Active Directory client software installed. Refer to your Active Directory documentation for more information.
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Create a Link to an External Group