Lab 2.1: Checking DSC Group status
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.. note:: Estimated time to complete: **5 minutes**

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Tasks
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To start managing DSC devices you must add devices configured in DSC to the BIG-IP Device Inventory. Discover the devices into BIGIQ Inventory by assigning the clustered devices to a BIGIQ clustered group.

On the top menu bar, select Devices from the BIG-IQ menu.

On the left, click BIG-IP CLUSTERS.

Click DSC Groups.

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You can skip the discovery steps since the DSC groups have been discovered for you.

Mouse over the status icons to see the status of each of the discovered clusters

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Click on the cluster Name to view more details about the cluster. Choose the device-group failover link for your BostonCluster.

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Review the Properties tab and notice that you can start a cluster sync operation from the bottom of the screen.

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Review the Traffic Groups tab。

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Click the n objects link to view the objects in the traffic group.

Close the window after the review.

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