You can use IP address information to automatically sort managed systems into specific groups. You can also create sorting criteria based on tags, which are like labels assigned to systems. You can use either or both to ensure that systems are where you want them in the System Tree.
Systems must match only one criterion of a group's sorting criteria to be placed in the group.
After creating groups and setting your sorting criteria, perform a Test Sort action to confirm the criteria and sorting order.
Once you have added sorting criteria to your groups, you can run the Sort Now action. The action moves selected systems to the appropriate group automatically. Systems that do not match the sorting criteria of any group are moved to Lost and Found.
New systems that call into the server for the first time are added automatically to the correct group. However, if you define sorting criteria after the initial agent-server communication, you must run the Sort Now action on those systems to move them immediately to the appropriate group, or wait until the next agent-server communication.
Sorting status of systems
On any system or collection of systems, you can enable or disable System Tree sorting. If you do disable System Tree sorting on a system, it is excluded from sorting actions, except when the Test Sort action is performed. During a test sort, the sorting status of the system or collection is considered and can be moved or sorted from the Test Sort page.
System Tree sorting settings on the ePO - On-prem server
For sorting to take place, it must be enabled on the server and on the systems. By default, once sorting is enabled, systems are sorted at the first agent-server communication (or next, if applying changes to existing systems) and are not sorted again.
Test sorting systems
Use this feature to view where systems are placed during a sort action. The Test Sort page displays the systems and the paths to the location where they are sorted. Although this page does not display the sorting status of systems, if you select systems on the page (even ones with sorting disabled), clicking Move Systems places those systems in the location identified.