SiteProtector manages the relationship between local settings
on the appliance and group settings in SiteProtector™.
The appliance sends its first heartbeat to the Agent Manager to
begin communication. When the Agent Manager receives the heartbeat,
it places the appliance in the group that you specified when you registered
the appliance. If you did not specify a group, it places the appliance
in the default group
A or G Series. If
you clear the group box when you register the appliance, it places
the appliance in
Ungrouped Assets.
Note: A
heartbeat is an encrypted, periodic HTTP request that the appliance
uses to indicate that it is still running. The appliance also uses
the heartbeat to receive updates from the Agent Manager. When you
register the appliance with SiteProtector,
you indicate the time interval (in seconds) between heartbeats.
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 completes 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.