User Manual Part 1

Behavior of SpectraGuard Enterprise Servers controlled through SpectraGuard Manager
SpectraGuard® Enterprise User Guide
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Behavior of SpectraGuard Enterprise Servers managed through
SpectraGuard Manager
Introduction
The behavior of the SpectraGuard Enterprise servers that are managed through SpectraGuard Manager, is slightly
different from the SpectraGuard Enterprise servers that are managed individually. Version 6.6 onwards,
SpectraGuard Managed Network Console (SpectraGuard -MNC) has been renamed as SpectraGuard Manager.
SpectraGuard Manager facilitates the centralized management of multiple SpectraGuard Enterprise servers, that
could be placed at different locations of the enterprise.
If you are not using SpectraGuard Manager to manage the SpectraGuard Enterprise servers in your enterprise, you
can ignore this chapter.
Inheriting Policies on the Root location of SpectraGuard Enterprise
Server
When the SpectraGuard Enterprise servers in your enterprise are managed through SpectraGuard
Manager, SpectraGuard Manager pushes the local policies on to the Root location of each of the SpectraGuard
Enterprise servers. The locations under Root location of the SpectraGuard Enterprise server are not affected in any
way.
When a SpectraGuard Enterprise server in the enterprise has been added to a group in SpectraGuard Manager, the
SpectraGuard Manager pushes the local policies defined for that group, to the Root location of the SpectraGuard
Enterprise server. Such policies are said to be inherited by the SpectraGuard Enterprise server from the SpectraGuard
Manager. The inherited policies cannot be edited or deleted from the SpectraGuard Enterprise Console. Such policies
can only be viewed and applied through the SpectraGuard Enterprise Console.
Effect on inherited policies and templates on disassociation from
SpectraGuard Manager
The process of pushing the local policies to a SpectraGuard Enterprise server through SpectraGuard Manager can
happen multiple times. In such cases, the most recently pushed policies would be implemented by or applied on the
SpectraGuard Enterprise servers. The previously inherited local policies that are not in use, would be retained by the
SpectraGuard Enterprise server.
If a SpectraGuard Enterprise server disassociates itself from the SpectraGuard Manager managing it, the inherited
policies and templates that are currently in use, are retained and used by the SpectraGuard Enterprise server. They
can now be edited and deleted from the SpectraGuard Enterprise Console at the Root location, as they are
independent of SpectraGuard Manager. This operation can be performed only by a superuser.
The inherited policies and templates that are no longer in use, will automatically get deleted from SpectraGuard
Enterprise.