Network Security Manager On-Premises Administration Guide

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Creating Device Groups

A device group enables you to easily deploy common configurations across all the devices of the group using templates. You can create device groups based on your requirement, for example: geographical location, business function and so on.

A device group can be created only at Tenant level.

To create a device group

  1. Navigate to Manager View | Home > Firewalls > Groups page.
  2. Click Add.

  3. Enter a Group Name and Tags in their respective fields.

  4. Select devices listed in Unassigned Devices to add to the group being created and click caret-right icon.

    The devices are moved to Grouped Devices list.

  5. Click Save.

    The Migrate Devices pop-up window displays.

  6. During migration, devices will be updated with configuration inherited from the new group.

    • Enable Auto Commit & Deploy Templates to commit the changes inherited from parent group and templates into NSM and deployed automatically to the migrated firewalls.

    • Click Save.

The newly created group is listed under the default group—.

To create a device group under another device group

  1. Click the Ellipses icon in the ACTION column of the group under which you want to create a new device group and select Add a Group under this Group.
  2. Follow steps 3 through 6 in the above procedure for creating a device group.

The newly created group is added under the selected parent group. Click the caret icon next to the parent group to view the newly added group.