Organizing Your Instance by Sites and Groups

VMware Edge Network Intelligence can be used to manage your entire organization across the globe. To make it easier to see where performance problems exist you can create sites and groups.

VMware Edge Network Intelligence has a hierarchical organization of Sites and Groups. Once a site or group is created, VMware Edge Network Intelligence will begin to create performance baselines

Sites are typically used for geographically separated parts of your organizations such as branch offices or campuses. Within VMware Edge Network Intelligence you can assign security roles to restrict users to specific sites. Alerts in VMware Edge Network Intelligence are also generated on a per site basis and users can set up notification on a per site basis

Groups are used to define an area within a site, typically buildings and floors, however you are not limited to just those groups, you could create a group for an area inside a building such as a cafeteria, lecture hall, or large meeting space. You can also create a group for outdoor users.

Groups are defined as collections of Access Points or as a hierarchical group of groups. The following table describes the types of groups in VMware Edge Network Intelligence.

Type	Parent	Required Fields	Purpose
Site	None/Overall	Address	Geographical sites
Preset	Site	None	Comes from the WLAN controller
Custom	Site	AP List/AP Group	Free form grouping of APs
Building	Site	Address	Define building
Floor	Building	Floor number, AP List/Group	Define floor can have a floor plan associated