In Otto, systems belong to Groups. Groups can be created from your Organization’s page:
After you click New Group, you’ll see this form:
Name: Name the group whatever you like. Rename the group whenever you like.
Windows 10 Destination OU: Otto presents you with an Active Directory browser that lets you select any OU under your Organization’s OU. This OU is where Otto places the system when the task sequence is applied. Changing this will not affect any existing systems. It only matters when the task sequence is applied.
Organization: The organization that the group belongs to.
Deprecated: This allows you to mark a group that should no longer be used for new builds. It has no other effect.
Successor Group: Often times, groups come and go as organizations and builds change. A successor group allows you to define where customer systems should transition to when systems are Duplicated or Refreshed. When duplicating or refreshing a system in a group that has a successor group, Otto automatically selects the successor group as the group for the new system.
Refresh OUs: When selecting a Destination OU, Otto scans Active Directory and caches the OU structure every few hours. If you’ve just recently created a new sub-OU and it doesn’t appear in the dropdown, click this button to ask Otto to re-scan.
Package and Configuration Selections:
Organization Administrators can add package and configuration selections to groups by using the Actions on the group’s page:
Note: A group’s package and configuration selections are only applied to systems that are prestaged after the group has been configured with them. It does not apply the new packages or configurations to existing systems in the group. To apply the packages or configurations to existing systems in the group, use the group’s bulk system functionality on the right-side of the group page as described in Bulk Actions on Systems.
Other Actions on groups:
Destroy allows you to destroy a group, but you can only destroy a group that has zero systems.
Duplicate Group does just what it says, it duplicates a group including all of its package and configuration selections, which you can then edit as much as needed.
CSV Report downloads a CSV file of the group’s systems.
Compare org’s Groups takes you a special view that lists all of the organization’s groups side-by side with draggable columns. When your organization has many groups, this view is useful to compare and contrast them.
Audits shows you a log of all of the changes that the group has undergone.
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