Overview
As your device fleet grows, organizing devices into groups becomes essential for efficient management. Groups allow you to apply any action — whether configuration, deployment, or command — to multiple devices simultaneously, rather than managing each device individually.
Devices can belong to multiple groups, enabling flexible organization by location, purpose, operating system, tags, or other criteria. In addition, dynamic filtering allows you to target devices based on specific attributes such as OS version, firmware, IP address, and more.
Groups also support persistent commands. When a group command is set as persistent, it is automatically applied to any new device added to the group — ensuring consistency and enabling automated onboarding, software deployment, and configuration updates.
Creating a Group
To create a group of devices.
1. Click on Devices in the sidebar menu to open the Device Table in the Radix Device Manager.
2. Click on the Groups icon at the top of the Devices Table, to open the Groups window (if it is not open already):
In the Groups window, click on the “Add group” icon to create a new group.
The Create new group window opens.
3. Assign a name and description to the group.
4. Under the Tags tab, assign a descriptive tag to the group, which will serve to identify devices in the group. In the example below, we have assigned the tag “rbp” to be the identifying tag for devices in the group “rbp group”.
5. Click Save to save the group.
6. Now, to add a device to this group, we simply assign the group’s tag to the device. The device will immediately be a member of the group. In our example, we assigned the tag rbp to the Windows device 64497DEFBE1A. Click on the device’s three-dot menu and go to Device>Set Device Tags.
7. In the Add tag box, type “rbp” and click Enter. The tag will be added to the device.
8. If we check our group rbp group again, we will see that device 64497DEFBE1A is a member of the group.
Adding more devices to a group
1. If you want to add more devices to the group, simply add the same identifying tag to those devices as well. You can search for a specific device, if needed:
2. Click on the three-dot menu on the far right of the device and go to Device>Set Device Tags.
The Set Device Tags window opens.
3. Type rbp and hit Enter. This adds the tag rbp to the device.
4. Click Confirm. The device will now be a member of the group rbp group.
Persistent Commands
Once we have a group, we can perform a command on the devices in the group. Let’s use the “rbp group” again.
1. Type “rbp” in the Groups search bar, to locate group “rbp group”.
2. We will execute the Direct Message command to the devices in the group. Click on the group’s three-dot menu, and select the command Deploy>Direct Message:
3. In the direct message pane, we compose a simple message:
Both devices in the group will receive the message.
Applying Persistence By Adding a Device to a Group
To apply persistence to an existing group command, open the Command History Log.
1. Click on the Command History icon in the sidebar menu to open the Command History.
2. Find the relevant command ((in this example, the Popup message command) and click on its three-dot menu. Since this command was sent to a group, the shield icon appears in blue. (If the command were issued to a single device, the icon would appear in gray.)
3. Click Persist. You will be prompted if you wish to make the command persistent.
4. Click Yes. The shield icon on the command will turn from blue to green.
5. Now, if we add another device to the group “rbp group”, it will receive this Popup message command immediately. We will add the tag “rbp group” to the device “f13d0d37e941d00e”.
6. We find the device in the Device Table and modify its tags by clicking on the three-dot menu>Device>Set Device Tags.
7. We add the tag “rbp”, click Enter, and hit Confirm. The tag “rbp” is added to the device, and it will be included in the group “rbp group”.
8. As soon as we add the tag to the device and add it to the group “rbp group”, it will receive the direct message command: