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Sites and Site Groups

Create and manage sites for
IoT Security
protection and organize them into groups.
Only users with owner privileges can create and manage sites, organize sites into groups, and assign access to sites and site groups to other users.
Log in as a user with owner privileges and select
Networks
Networks and Sites
Sites
. There you can add, view, edit, and delete sites with devices under
IoT Security
protection.
There are three sections on the Sites page:
  • At the top is a title bar with titles for the Networks, Network Segments Configuration, and Sites tabs. There is also a global filter that controls the content displayed on the page by site and time range.
  • The Organization section shows the hierarchical structure of sites in your organization.
  • The Sites section is a table with useful information about individual sites.
The Default site is where
IoT Security
initially assigns firewalls. You can later reassign them to user-defined sites.
To add a new site, click
+
above the table. There are different settings based on the device-to-site assignment method that’s in use. When assigning devices to sites by IP address, enter a site name, optionally enter a site address and description, choose either the IP prefix of an non-shared IP block or previously defined network segment, and then
Save
. When assigning devices to sites by firewall, enter a site name, optionally enter an address for the site and (if you’re organizing sites into groups) choose a site group, and then
Save
.
To edit or delete a site, click the three vertical dots at the far right of a site row and then click one of the actions that appear. When assigning devices to sites based on firewalls, there are two additional options. You can assign one or more firewalls to a site or unassign a site from a group.
Before you can delete a site, you must first remove all firewalls from it or reassign them to different sites.

Organize Sites into Groups

You have the option to organize your sites into groups within a hierarchical structure and then set controls at different levels within the structure to define what administrative users see and do. For example, in the tree structure shown below, you might give a user access to data at an individual site level, or for all sites in a city, or in a state, or within a broader region.
You don’t have to organize sites into groups. In fact, by default, the Organization panel is hidden on the
Networks
Networks and Sites
Sites
page. If you want, you can assign users access on a per-site basis without the use of site groups. However, if you want to see the Organization panel and use this feature, click
Show Organization
and then click
Organize Sites
.

Add Groups to the Tree and Add Sites to Groups

Only a user with owner privileges can add, edit, and delete groups and add sites to them.
There can be five levels in a group hierarchy. The root node forms the top-level group (“Acme” in the examples here) and is the group to which all sites belong by default. By default, it’s the name of the tenant account and cannot be removed, but it can be renamed. All other groups below the root are completely owner-defined.
To add a group to the organization, hover your cursor over an existing group, click the
Add group
icon, and then enter a new name. To change its name, click the three dots (
...
) next to the Add group icon and then click
Rename
.
The global filter has priority over page-level filters. When creating the tree structure, be sure that the global filter at the top of the page is set to
All Sites
. If it’s set to anything else, the Organization panel will keep collapsing to show only whatever site or sites were selected in the global filter.
Add groups and subgroups as needed to reflect the structure of your organization. After adding the groups you need, add sites to them. Select the check box for one or more sites in the Sites panel, click
Assign to Group
, and then choose the one to put them in.
You can search for a group by typing its name in the Search groups field at the top of the Assign to Group drop-down menu.
In addition to adding existing sites to groups, you can also add new sites to groups. When creating a new site (
Networks
Networks and Sites
Sites
+
), the Site Group option lets you assign the site to an existing group, thereby combining site creation and group assignment in a convenient one-step process.

Reassign Sites and Delete Groups

If you later want to reassign a site from one group to another, use the same process for adding it to a group but select the other group from the list.
When you assign a site to a group that also has subgroups, a node labeled Sites appears in the tree under its assigned group at the same level as the subgroups. For example, notice how the group named East Coast has two subgroups—New Jersey and Virginia—and it also has a node called Sites for two sites assigned to the East Coast group.
If you delete a group,
IoT Security
reassigns all its sites and child groups to its parent group. For instance, look at what happens when the Maryland group is deleted. The site that belonged to Maryland now belongs to East Coast, and its child group Annapolis becomes a child group of East Coast.
To avoid
IoT Security
automatically reassigning a site when its group is deleted or simply to remove it from a group, click the three vertical dots at the far right of its row in the Sites panel, and either click
Edit Site
to reassign it to another group or click
Unassign
to remove it from its current group and put it into the root node.

Use Groups to Filter and Control Access to Data

After you finish creating the organizational structure and assigning sites to groups, you can use the tree to filter what to display on the Sites page. Click any group name in the tree to display sites belonging to it in the Sites panel on the right. The sites that are displayed either belong directly to the group or are in one of its child groups. (To remove the filter, click the X to the right of its name at the top of the Sites table.)
Not only can you use groups to filter the sites displayed on the
Networks
Networks and Sites
Sites
page, but you can also filter by group on the
Devices
page.
In the drop-down list for the sites global filter, click a group name (in blue) and then click either
Select All
to see devices at all sites in the selected group or click a specific site to see devices just at that site.
You can also select a group or site when defining the scope of a report at
Reports
Files and Settings
+
and clicking
Generate a report now
or
Schedule a report for later
.
When logged in as a user with owner privileges, you can use groups to control which sites other users are allowed to access. Do this in the User Role & Access section on the user account settings for a user by clicking
Administration
User Accounts
>
username
.
By default, all users have access to all groups and sites. However, after a user with owner privileges gives other users access to one site or group, that’s all they can access. If that site or group is ever deleted, these users won’t return to having default access to everything. Instead, they won’t be able to access anything; that is, until they’re given access to something else. On the other hand, users with owner privileges always have access to all groups and sites in their account.

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