Object sets are collections of
objects that are of particular interest to a system
administrator. They are created for data collection and report
generation and can be used over and over. Object sets should
contain objects of the same category.
You can use object sets to
target only the network information that you want, as the focus
of an object set is only on the objects defined in it. You can also
create object sets to be used offline, where the reporting is done
using previously collected data stored in the database.
To give you an idea of how
beneficial object sets can be, consider the following scenario.
Suppose you, as an administrator, are typically responsible for a
specific aspect of your organization’s network. For example, Admin
1 is responsible for the Research and Development department in
Chicago. This encompasses all users, groups, and computers that are
part of this department.
Rather than collecting data
from the entire domain that contains these objects, it is more
efficient to create an object set that contains only this subset of
network information. Information gathered and reports generated
against this object set only show information that is relevant to
Admin 1.
