Find out how the appliance and SiteProtector™ communicate and the relationship between local settings on the appliance and group settings in SiteProtector.
At that first heartbeat, if you selected to override group settings with local appliance settings, then the appliance maintains its local settings. If you did not select to override group settings with local appliance settings, then the Agent Manager immediately "pushes" the group policy files to the appliance. It performs this action even if the group policy settings are undefined. For example, if you configure firewall rules on the appliance, and then register the appliance with a group with no firewall rules, the group policy overwrites the local policy. The appliance has no firewall rules.