Scopes

A scope is a grouping of resources that can be used to restrict the range of an operation or action. For example, you can create scopes based on:

  • Organization or department (Marketing, Research and Development, Finance)

  • Usage (Production, Development, Testing)

  • Skills (Linux, Windows)

    For example, a data center could be organized so that all servers running Linux are monitored using one scope and all servers running MS Windows are monitored using another scope. Email notifications can be configured such that Windows technicians are notified for issues on the servers running Windows and Linux technicians are notified for issues on the servers running Linux.

When scopes are defined and resources assigned to them, you can:

  • Restrict the resources displayed in the user interface (UI) to those assigned to the scope.

  • Restrict user permissions to grant access only to the resources in a scope.

  • Configure filtered email notifications for alerts based on the scopes that are earlier defined.

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