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Create groups

Overview

Arranging Agents in groups can simplify management of your Resilio deployment. Grouping enables:

  • Bulk-updating Agent configuration. For example adjusting Agent's settings in Agent Profile or a bandwidth limiter.
  • Simplified Agents assignments to Jobs. Instead of adding them one-by-one, you can create a group of Agents and assign in when configuring the Job.
  • Automate adding Agents to Jobs using the Auto assignment feature.
  • Introducing high-availability features to your deployment and scaling-out to maximize transfer speeds (applicable to Resilio Active Everywhere 4 and newer).

Create a group

To create a group:

  1. In the Management Console, select Groups, then click + CREATE NEW GROUP.

  2. In the DETAILS tab:

    1. Enter the group name (not applicable to domain groups).
    2. (Optional) Provide a description that will help other administrators understand the purpose of the group.

    3. Select group type.

      • Standard group - Standard Agent group that can be assigned to any Job type. Agents participate in the Job individually but they're managed as a group.
      • High Availability group - Agents in a high-availability group operate in active-passive arrangement ensuring continuous operations in case of the leader Agent failure. For more information, see High Availability groups.
      • Gateway Scaleout group - Workloads in a Gateway Scaleout group are distributed across the Agents within the group to maximize transfer speed. Gateways Scaleout groups can only participate as Caching Gateways in File Caching and Hybrid Work Jobs. For more information, see Speed scale-out cluster.
      • Speed Scaleout group - Designed to maximize transfer speed and scalability by distributing workloads across multiple Agents.
      • Domain group - A replica of an Active Directory domain group with end-user Agents participating in Enterprise Hybrid Work jobs.
      Groups and Jobs

      Group type determines the kinds of Jobs an Agent group can participate in and the capacity in which it participates.

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    4. Click Next.

    Groups Details

  3. (Optional) In the AUTO ASSIGNMENT tab:

    1. Select Automate group membership option to assign Agents to this group automatically.

    2. Select automated group assignment mode:

      • Add all new Agents - Add all newly provisioned Agents to this group.
      • Add new Agents that match the rule - Add newly provisioned Agents that match the tag-based rule.
      • Always update the group according to the rule - Apply the rule to all Agents and update the group assignment accordingly.

    3. Add an Agent tag and provide a regular expression for string matching.

      Regular expression standard

      Regular expression should be provided according to the ECMAScript/ECMA-262 standard.

    4. Click Next.

    Agent Group Autoassignment

    Auto assignment in Domain groups

    Auto assignment is not applicable to Domain groups, which are managed based on the information received from the domain controller.

  4. In the DOMAIN tab, select a domain group, then click Next.

    Note

    Applicable to Domain groups only. Domain groups are managed based on the information received from the domain controller.

  5. In the AGENTS tab, select Agents that you want to assign to this group, then click Next.

    Note

    • Manual Agent assignment isn't available if you chose the Always update the group according to the rule auto-assignment option.
    • Manual Agent assignment isn't available for Domain groups, which are managed based on the information received from the domain controller.

  6. In the PROFILE tab, choose an Agent Profile, then click Next.

    Note

    If one of the Agents belongs to a different group, you won't be able apply an Agent Profile other than the one that the Agent has been assigned.

    Groups Profile

  7. In the BANDWIDTH tab, choose the bandwidth schedule, then click Save or Save and re-sort for Always update the group according to the rule auto assignment mode.

    Note

    If one of the Agents belongs to a different group, you won't be able apply a bandwidth schedule other than the one that already assigned to the Agent in a different group.

    Groups Bandwidth

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