An Asset Group is a set of assets or devices that an organization wants to associate with one another for business purposes. Each Asset Group can be comprised of assets only, of another Asset Group only, or a combination of assets and one other Asset Group. Although an asset group can be assigned to only one other asset group (its "Parent"), a single asset can be assigned to multiple Asset Groups. An asset group within another Asset Group is considered a"child" of that "parent" Asset Group.
When the Axeda® Connected Product Management Applications is first installed, the Root Asset Group and the Default Model Group are created by default. The Default Model Group has the Root Asset Group as its parent. Both of these groups can contain multiple Asset Groups and assets. They are the only asset groups that can contain more than one asset group. Neither group can be deleted.
Each time a model is created (whether automatically or manually), the Platform creates a default asset group for the model, using the word "Default" and the name of the model as the name of the asset group. All of these asset groups are created in the Default Model Group. None of these groups can be deleted or modified once they are created.
Assets are assigned to Asset Groups, and users are assigned to user groups. Asset Groups are assigned to user groups such that only users who are assigned to the assigned user groups can view, modify, and manage the assets in the related Asset Groups.
You can create Asset Groups in the Create an asset group page of the Axeda® Administration application. When the Platform is configured to allow it, the Platform automatically creates models, assets, and default model asset groups for all assets that register for the first time without having been added previously to the Platform. The assets can also be assigned to other asset groups, either manually or through the execution of dynamic group definitions.
For information about security for Asset Groups, refer to Security for Objects in Axeda® Connected Product Management Applications and for information about security for these objects when Delegated Administration is enabled, refer to Security for Objects in Delegated Administration Units. When viewing asset groups in a Platform with Delegated Administration enabled, the names of asset groups may have prefixes; for details, refer to Names of Objects in DA Units.