Server groups provide a way of organizing your Crystal Enterprise servers to make them easier to manage. That is, when you manage a group of servers, you need only view a subset of all the servers on your system. You might, for example, group your servers together by region or by type.
If you group your servers by region, you can easily set up default processing settings, recurrent schedules, and schedule destinations that are appropriate to users who work in a particular regional office. You can associate a report with a single server group, so the report is always processed by the same servers. And you can associate scheduled reports with a particular server group to ensure that scheduled reports are sent to the correct printers, file servers, and so on. Thus, server groups prove especially useful when maintaining systems that span multiple locations and multiple time zones.
Once you have created your server groups, you can change the status, obtain metrics, and configure your servers in the Server Groups management area—just as you would in the Servers management area. The only difference is that you see only the servers that you added to the server group. For details on configuring individual servers, see Server management overview.
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