• Capture Client
• Overview
  • Description
  • Navigation
  • Guide Conventions
• Scopes and Policies
  • Introducing Scope of Operations
  • Using Scope Selector
  • Policy Management
    • Inheritance
    • Policy Types
      • Client Policies
      • Threat Protection Policies
      • Trusted Certificate Policies
      • Web Content Filtering Policies
      • Managing Blacklist
      • Exclusions
        • Hashes
        • Paths
        • Signer Identity
        • File Types
        • Browsers
    • Replicating Policies
    • Group Ranking Policy
    • Creating Custom Policies for Device Groups
    • Device Control
• Protection
  • Tenant Token
  • Installation for the New Clients
  • Migrating Clients Across Regions
  • Protecting Devices
  • Reviewing Registered Devices
    • List View
    • Unmanaged List View
    • Map
  • Active Users
  • Performing System Scan
• Groups
  • Creating a Static User Group
  • Creating Static Device Groups
  • Creating Dynamic Device Groups
  • Creating Custom Rules for Dynamic Groups
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Groups

In some cases, you may want to associate a policy to a group of users or devices rather than an individual or an entire organization. Capture Client makes the distinction between static groups (which contains a static list of devices or users) and dynamic groups (where devices are added or removed based on rules). For example, you may want a policy applied to all incoming traffic going to your sales team and no one else in your organization. If you want to apply a policy to particular group, you first have to create a group.

A newly created device group inherits the policies that are associated with the tenant under which the group is created; any changes to the policy at the tenant level are automatically propagated to the groups. You can then disable inheritance and customize the policies as required. For information on creating custom policies for groups, see Creating Custom Policies for Device Groups.

To see all the active groups associated with a configuration, navigate to Assets > Groups. Groups are broadly classified into two types: DYNAMIC GROUPS and STATIC GROUPS.

• DYNAMIC GROUPS are groups where devices are added or removed automatically based on policy rules.
• STATIC GROUPS lists are static assignments managed by an administrator manually and not by any rule dynamically. Static groups are further classified as Static Device Groups and Static User Groups.
  • Static Device Groups—Groups created by selecting devices
  • Static User Groups—Groups created by selecting users

• Creating a Static User Group
• Creating Static Device Groups
• Creating Dynamic Device Groups
• Creating Custom Rules for Dynamic Groups