Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

About selecting views from the View pane when the multiple selection option is checked

From the View pane, you can select a view and a node that contains a group of primary servers and also specific objects. For example, you can select the default view, ALL PRIMARY SERVERS. When you select a view such as ALL PRIMARY SERVERS or a node that contains a group of primary servers, all the primary servers that are currently in the view or node are automatically selected. The primary servers that you may add later to this view or node are also automatically selected.

You also have the option to select only specific objects of a particular view or node. For example, you may select only specific primary servers under the default view ALL PRIMARY SERVERS. To select a specific primary server, first deselect the view or node that contains the primary server and then select the primary server.

You may also deselect a specific primary server from a view by selecting the view and then deselecting the specific primary server.

Consider a scenario in which server A and server B exist in a particular view, such as ALL PRIMARY SERVERS. Suppose that you select the ALL PRIMARY SERVERS view and then specifically deselect server B. Then, you select a node that also contains server B. In this case, even though server B is part of the selected view or node, it is not considered. It is not considered because you specifically excluded server B from the ALL PRIMARY SERVERS view. When you specifically deselect a primary server from a view, and that primary server is also part of another selected view, the exclusion (the deselection) has a higher priority. For this reason, it is recommended that you do not repeat a primary server across groups.