Organize and manage devices with the IT Organizer tool

The IT Organizer tool helps you manage your IT Monitor deployments. In a typical IT Monitor deployment, the System Manager builds many tags belonging to many different interfaces, sometimes on multiple Data Archive servers. The following diagram illustrates some of the management difficulties in a distributed data collection environment:

The IT Organizer tool helps you group your tags by monitored device. This allows you to act on all the tags belonging to one device. Some of the operations you can perform on a device level are:

• Change the IP address for all the tags (if the device’s IP address changes)

• Change the PI point attributes of many tags at once

• Show how many tags are not collecting data per device

• Add an entire device to the Module Database

You can also assign each group of tags a role that describes the type of device or application you are monitoring. Once you have assembled and labeled the device groups, you can organize them in a device tree.