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Deploy groups best practices
There are a number of best practices associated with deploy groups.
The following are suggested:
- Segment your systems by geographic location. In this case, it is likely that you would want all agents deployed to a deploy group to connect with the same primary Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.
- Segment your systems according to their role within the enterprise. You might create a group of database servers, a group of application servers, a group of Web servers. This allows you to deploy and administer agents to the systems within a group the same way but differently from how you might deploy and administer agents in a different group.
- Segment your systems according to the monitoring infrastructure being used. You might create a set of groups for monitoring using Tivoli Monitoring agents and another group or set of groups for monitoring using SSM agents.
- Segment your systems into smaller groups representing a percentage of total systems. This allows you to perform deployments into more consumable sets of activities.
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