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Create and Map Device Group

A Device Group is a collection of devices or interfaces configured with the same routing protocol or categorized by certain logical conditions. You can use device groups to better organize network devices and interfaces depending on your network scale. Device Groups can be used as device input in most NetBrain Automation Functions.

There are the following types of device groups:

  • My Device Groups — contains private device groups only accessible to yourself. To share a private device group as public, see Sharing a device group for details.
  • Shared Device Groups — contains device groups accessible to all users in the current domain.
  • Policy Device Groups — contains device groups used for Defining Device Access Policy.
  • System Device Groups— contains the system built-in device groups generated after the routing protocol calculation for the discovered devices. Every system device group collects devices configured with the same routing protocol and AS number and is also named with the routing protocol and the AS number, such as #EIGRP 100. The device groups in this category are not intended to be modified or deleted.
  • Media — contains the media used to connect interfaces of multiple devices (multi-point) in a specific topology type, including WAN, DMVPN, MPLS Cloud, bus, and so on. For example, a LAN segment in IPv4 L3 topology. The device groups in this category are not intended to be modified or deleted.
Information Tip: If you wish to modify the System Device Groups and Media, please contact NetBrain Support for help.
Information Note: Only the users with the privilege of Shared Resource Management can create, edit or delete a device group in the Public category.

Tip:  What are the differences between the Device Group and Site?

Unlike Site, which should authentically reflect the real network architecture, Device Groups provide a more flexible way that allows users to group devices for different purposes. For example, when you need to run CLI command on multiple devices that cross Sites, the best way to do it is to create a Device group for those devices. The device group can be used as data input in many NetBrain Automation functions like Runbook, Network Intent, Benchmark, etc.