About SiteProtector Management

The SiteProtector™ system manages the relationship between local settings on the Network IPS appliance and group settings in the SiteProtector system.

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 the SiteProtector system, 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.