Robot.cfg - automatically assign a machine to UIM Group?

[Glenn Weavind]

Pardon another newbie question: is there a syntax that allows me to predefine which UIM group a newly built machine will be added to, please?
I'm comfortable with using robot.cfg to select an IP address from within a given subnet (machines all have multiple IP addresses), but have no idea whether robot.cfg can be used for this.
Is this possible, please?

[Garin Walsh]

You can create a dynamic group.

At the most generic you can use SQL like:

SELECT [cs_id] FROM [NimsoftSLM].[dbo].[CM_COMPUTER_SYSTEM] c where c.name like '%TEST%'

and something like:



An approach like this relies on something about the robot setup controlling the group it will be added to - we use the user tags for this purpose. And in some cases the hostname of the system implies membership too.

[Daniel Blanco]

Yes. Like Garin mentioned, UIM Groups are dynamic so they pick up new robots with specific properties as they are added into the DB.
When installing a new robot if you have a pre-defined robot.cfg ready you can use the properties
os_user1 = xxx
os_user2 = yyy
as the identifying property to pull in a group of devices/robots as needed into the specific USM Group.

<controller>
os_user1 = USMGroup1
os_user2 = USMGroup2
</controller>

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Daniel Blanco
Enterprise Tools Team Architect
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[Glenn Weavind]

Thanks for the helpful feedback.