In Operations Manager 2007, groups are logical collections of objects, such as Windows-based computers, hard disks, or instances of Microsoft SQL Server. You create a group by using the Create Group Wizard, and you use one or more of the following criteria to establish membership for the group:

• A list of the objects' names.
  
  
• A formula that dynamically populates the membership of the group, such as a formula that adds domain controller objects to the group.
  
  
• Other groups.
  
  
• A list of the objects' names to exclude from the group.
  
  

In Operations Manager 2007, you use groups for the following purposes:

• Approve members of an Operations Manager 2007 user role to manage specified groups of objects. For example, members of the Messaging Operators user roles can be approved to monitor objects in the Messaging group. For more information about user roles, see About User Roles in Operations Manager 2007.
  
  
• Create views for specific groups of objects and approve members of an Operations Manager2007 user role to see the views. For example, you can create a state view for the Messaging group and approve members of the Messaging Operators user role to see the Messaging view. For more information, see Views in Operations Manager 2007.
  
  
• Use overrides to disable or adjust the configuration of a monitor that is applied to a group of, or individual, managed objects.
  
  

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