Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 2.X User Guide

The Target Groups feature enable users to define specific environments or groups of environments that 
are appropriate for the processes that execute on them. You can define a target group that includes a 
collection of targets on which to execute processes at the same time.

When you create a process, you must specify where you want the process to run. You can specify that 
the process runs on a specific target group. If you specify to execute the process on a target group, you 
can further specify to run the process on all the objects that are included in the target group or run the 
process on a specific object within the target group. 

Using target groups simplifies specifying where certain processes will run. The target group can be 
defined once and reused in several processes. For example, you may have a database maintenance 
process that is scheduled to run every month on all database servers. Instead of scheduling the process 
multiple times to run on each database server, you can create a target group that includes all the database 
servers and schedule the process to run on all the servers at the same time.

The target groups that can be created depend on the adapters that are installed. You can create a target 
group for an Active Directory Organizational Unit, Active Directory Group, Target Type Group, or a 
Virtual Group that can contain any target that has been created in Enterprise Orchestrator.

The sections in this chapter provides instructions on managing target groups.