Appliance groups allow you to push configuration changes to multiple appliances at the same time, and to limit the displayed event data to specific appliances.
Important
Each appliance type has a reserved system group; appliances cannot be removed from their respective system groups. For example, all Network Security appliances are permanent members of the sysgroup.Web_MPS group, all Email Security — Server appliances are permanent members of the sysgroup.Email_MPS, all Malware Analysis group appliances are permanent members of the sysgroup.MAS group, and so on. All managed appliances are members of the All group.
You cannot add or delete appliances from reserved groups. You can create custom groups to which you can add or delete appliances as desired.
You can create additional custom groups as needed. A group can have any number of appliances, and an appliance can be a member of any number of groups. Reasons for creating groups include:
Dividing appliances of the same type into smaller groups. For example, you could group your Network Security appliances by region.
Combining different appliance types into the same group. For example, you could put all of your Network Security appliances and Email Security — Server appliances into the same group so you can push the same user accounts or password security policies to all of them.
Group information
The settings for groups are shown in the following table.
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Name | The group name. |
Comment | An optional comment about the group. |
Created (UTC) | The date and time the group was created. |
Action | Links to edit or delete a group. These links are not provided for the reserved system groups. |
Sensors | The number of appliances that are members of the group. |
For more information, see:
Operator or Admin access