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User Guide for Cisco Security Manager 4.4

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Managing the Device Inventory

Before you can manage devices in Security Manager, you must prepare the devices for management, then

add those devices to the Security Manager device inventory. After you add the devices, you can view and

edit device information, configure policies on devices, copy and share policies, clone devices, and so on.

The following topics describe how to manage the device inventory:

•Understanding the Device Inventory, page 3-1

•Adding Devices to the Device Inventory, page 3-6

•Working with the Device Inventory, page 3-34

•Working with Device Groups, page3-57

•Working with Device Status View, page 3-61

Security Manager maintains an inventory of the devices that it manages. The inventory includes the

information required to locate and log into the device, so that your policies can be deployed to the

devices. The following topics describe some general concepts related to the device inventory:

•Understanding the Device View, page 3-1

•Understanding Device Names and What Is Considered a Device, page3-3

•Understanding Device Credentials, page 3-4

•Understanding Device Properties, page 3-6

The Device View button opens the Devices page, from which you can add and delete devices from the

Security Manager inventory and manage device policies, properties, and interfaces centrally.

This is a device-centric view in which you can see all devices that you are managing and you can select

specific devices to view their properties and define their settings and policies. You can define security

policies locally on specific devices. You can then share those policies to make them globally available

to be assigned to other devices.

The Devices page contains two panes. The left pane contains two elements: the Device selector, located

in the top left pane, and the Policy selector, located in the bottom left pane. The right pane is the main

content area. The following illustration shows the Devices page.