Groups tab and adding new groups

Overview

Resilio Connect allowed to unite Agents into groups. Grouping the Agents solves the following tasks: 
 - updating some of the parameters in bulk on the Agents. For example, settings in an Agent profile, or a bandwidth limiter.
 - simplify adding the Agents to jobs. Instead of adding them one-by-one, Admin and create a group pf Agents in reuse it for different jobs;
 - automate Agent getting to a job. This can be achieved by Autogroup functionality. 
- some of the group types have built-in functionality. For example High Availability and Gateway Scaleout groups, which are available starting with Resilio Active Everywhere Platform v4.0.0.

How to Configure Groups

Groups are created and  edited from the Groups tab via a step-by-step wizard. 

Details Tab

Allows to enter group name and description (optional). Can be changed later anytime.
Select type of group. Type of group cannot be change later. 
Available types: 
Standard - this is a regular group of agents, that can be used in any job (see usage matrix below)
High Availability - Agents in this group work in highly-available mode. Read more about it here.
Gateway Scaleout - can be used in a File cache and Hybrid job work for Cache servers only. Read more about it here. 

Agents tab

On tab "Agent" one can check/uncheck agents to add or remove them from the group, if that does not produce usage conflict. See the usage matrix below.

• If the agent you are trying to add already has the job with a permission different form that of the specified group, Resilio Management Console will display "already used" the "Is used" column and won't allow to add the conflicting Agent.
• Also, it can be caused by different profiles or schedules assigned to different groups.

Jobs tab

Allows to add or remove certain jobs for the group. Depending on the type of the group, Agents' OS and version, some jobs or job permissions may be restricted from being assigned to a group. 

Usage matrix

Profile tab

Allows to choose a profile from the profiles list. You can create a new profile or edit the existing one in profiles settings.

Schedule tab

Allows to choose a schedule from the list of available schedules. You can create one in Scheduler.

Settings tab

Here you can configure new agents to be automatically added to the job as well as add a more refined rule based on agent tags (starting with v.2.6). Read more about it here.