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What is a Property Group?

Often you will create a behavior model that monitors behavior on your entire network without a concern for the specific type of node causing the behavior. At times, however, you will want to limit NerveCenter's monitoring activity to a specific node or type of nodes. You can limit a behavior model's focus using property groups.

Each node in NerveCenter's node list is assigned a property group, which contains one or more properties. Each property is a string which can be:

• The name of a Managed Information Base (MIB) base object
• A user-defined string

You can limit any object in a behavior model to focus on one specific property.

For example, if you wish to poll only a certain set of routers, you would assign to each router a property group with a unique property. When defining the poll, you would tell it to poll only those nodes which have the unique property.

Property Groups and Properties