F-Secure Policy Manager

Adding hosts
This section describes different ways of adding hosts to a policy domain.
The main methods of adding hosts to your policy domain, depending on your operating system, are as follows:
• Import hosts directly from your Windows domain.
• Import hosts through autoregistration (requires that Management Agent is installed on the imported hosts).
You can also use different criteria to import the autoregistered hosts into different sub-domains.
• Create hosts manually by using the New host command.
Importing hosts from an Active Directory structure
You can import a policy domain structure and hosts to Policy Manager from an Active Directory structure.
1. Select Edit > Import Active Directory structure from the menu.
The Import Active Directory structure wizard appears.
2. Enter the location of your Active Directory server and a user name and password that provide at least
read access, then click Next.
3. Select the Active Directory domain, the containers you want to import and the target policy domain you
want to import them to, then click Next.
Containers that include hosts will be highlighted.
4. Review the import rules, select which rules you want to create, then click Start.
The selected rules will be applied to the hosts from the Active Directory structure that send a request to
be managed by Policy Manager.
5. Wait until the import operation is completed, then click Close to exit the wizard.
The hosts from Active Directory, along with any new items to the policy domain structure, will appear in Policy
Manager.
Adding hosts in Windows domains
In a Windows domain, the most convenient method of adding hosts to your policy domain is by importing
them through Intelligent Installation.
Note that this also installs Management Agent on the imported hosts. To import hosts from a windows domain:
1. Select the target domain.
2. Select Edit > Autodiscover Windows hosts from the menu.
After the autodiscover operation is completed, the new host is automatically added to the Policy domain
tree.
Importing new hosts
Another option for adding hosts in Policy Manager Console is to import new hosts.
You can do this only after Management Agent has been installed on the hosts and after the hosts have sent
an autoregistration request. Management Agent will have to be installed from a CD-ROM, from a login script,
or some other way.
To import new hosts:
1. Click on the toolbar.
Alternatively:
• Select Edit > Import new hosts from the menu.
• Select Import new hosts from the Installation view.
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