An asset is a device that you can monitor using Change Guardian.
An asset group is a set of assets or devices that you want to associate with one another. Each asset group can contain assets, another asset group, or a combination of assets and asset group. Asset groups allow you to assign policies to the group instead of to each individual computer. When you add an asset to a group, Change Guardian automatically deploys the policies assigned to the group to the new asset.
To receive events, you must first add assets.
This section provides information about the following:
To add assets in Agent Manager:
Log in to Change Guardian, click Integration > Agent Manager.
(Conditional) To add the first asset, click All Assets > Manage Assets > Add.
(Conditional) To add additional assets, click Asset Groups > All Assets > Add Assets.
(Conditional) To import assets from Active Directory, use the Active Director tab.
NOTE:If you are using Active Directory over SSL or TLS connection, ensure that you have imported the Active Directory SSL certificate to the Change Guardian server. For more information, see Configuring Certificates.
(Conditional) To import assets from a text file, use the Hosts List tab.
Create a text file with a header line containing the columns Hostname, MajorType, and Addresses, and use a tab to separate the columns. In the Hostname column, specify the fully-qualified domain names of the computers where you want to deploy agents. Optionally, you can specify the IP addresses under the Addresses column. In the MajorType column, specify whether the operating system is UNIX or Windows.
(Conditional) To manually add an asset, use the Host tab.
Agent Manager displays assets in the following asset groups:
All Assets: Assets added or imported to Agent Manager.
Approved Assets: Assets to which Agent Manager successfully deployed a Change Guardian agent.
You have to authenticate an asset once after installing an agent.
Assets that have not communicated: Assets in which Client Agent Manager service cannot communicate with the Agent Management Service.
To move an asset to Approved asset, check whether the Client Agent Manager service is communicating with Agent Management Service.
Assets not in any group: Assets in which Agent Manager installed an agent, but they are not part of user-defined group.
To move assets from this group to any user defined group, select the asset, go to Manage Asset > Move Assets to a Group, and then select the required group.
User defined groups: A list of user defined groups and user-defined categories.
To organize and manage assets, you can create asset groups under User defined groups and copy assets from Approved Assets group to User defined groups.
In Policy Editor, asset groups allow you to assign policies to the group instead of to each individual computer. When you add an asset to a group, Change Guardian automatically deploys the policies assigned to the group to the new asset.
Change Guardian provides the following types of asset groups:
Default groups: Assets specific to platforms.
You can view the members of default groups, but you cannot modify or delete the groups.
Static groups: Assets you manually add.
To add or remove members, manually update the group.
Dynamic groups: Assets that match the filter criteria you specify for the group.
Policy Editor does not show an asset group if the group does not contain registered assets.
Change Guardian refreshes the group membership every 30 minutes based on the specified criteria.