Visibility of grouped items

Grouping clients is a way of easily selecting subsets of clients on a system that has a large number of clients. You can then create file-level backup schedules and generate reports based on the clients in the selected group. For a physical Hyper-V host, you can also create an inner group to protect its virtual machines.

Grouping virtual machines is a way of easily selecting subsets of virtual machines on a host that has a large number of virtual machines. You can then create VMware or Hyper-V backup schedules and generate reports based on the selected group.

See the following figures for an example of groups created for file-level and virtual machine protection:

In the figure on the left, the client-level group is selected. If you create a schedule based on the client-level group, the clients are protected with file-level backups. However, the virtual machines in the Virtual Machine Level Protection group are not protected.

In the figure on the right, the inner group Virtual Machine Level Protection is selected. If you create a schedule based on the inner group, the virtual machines are protected with VMware or Hyper-V backups. However, the clients from the figure on the left are not.

You can assign different Unitrends users to each group. Multiple users can be assigned to the same group. See the following table for information on which items are visible for each user privilege. Items that are not grouped are seen by all Unitrends users with Superuser or Administrator privileges.

For information about the abilities of each user privilege, see Privilege level.

User Privilege	Visible Items
Manage or Monitor	User sees only VMs and clients assigned to the user and any ungrouped items.
Superuser or Administrator	User sees all Navigation pane items regardless of group permissions.

The following figure provides an example of what a Superuser or Administrator sees versus what the user "Alice" sees.