Using the Default Community

After you create a realm, you can create communities with the realm. Communities only exist in the context of one realm, except for the default community, which is shared across all realms. Communities are the mechanism that the appliance uses to deploy access agents and End Point Control components to users.

The easiest way to associate a community with an authentication realm is to use the global Default community that is preconfigured in AMC. The properties automatically assigned to the Default community are:

• Membership in the community is set to Any, meaning all users in the authentication realm are assigned to the community.

• Each member of the community is allowed a maximum of 5 active sessions.

• Web-based proxy access (TCP protocol) and Web access (HTTP) methods are made available to community members.

• No End Point Control restrictions are imposed on users’ computers.