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Manage Airwall™
Provision and manage Airwall Edge Services and devices, monitor activity, and install updates.
Manage Devices and Airwall Edge Services
Set up tags, groups, and Smart Device Groups to help you manage the devices connected to your Airwall secure network.
Managing devices dynamically with Smart Device Groups
Use Smart Device Groups to simplify the creation and management of large groups of devices. Dynamically add devices to a group by defining rules to create a Smart Device Group. Rules can match criteria such as organizational hierarchy, geographic location, or network domain. When you create a Smart Device Group, any new devices that match the rules you defined are added to the group automatically.
Best Practices for Smart Device Groups
Create easy-to-use, effective Smart Device Groups by following these recommendations to ensure your rules are constructed properly.
Maintain exceptions separately
Keep it Smart: If there are exceptions (that is, a "denylist") of devices to exclude from a smart group, maintain a separate denylist device group containing these devices rather than abandoning the rules and manually removing the devices from the group. For example, when troubleshooting, or as bad actors emerge in the network, add them to the denylist device group, and then add a rule to the end of your device match rules to exclude that device group from all of your Smart device groups.

Maintain exceptions separately

Keep it Smart: If there are exceptions (that is, a "denylist") of devices to exclude from a smart group, maintain a separate denylist device group containing these devices rather than abandoning the rules and manually removing the devices from the group. For example, when troubleshooting, or as bad actors emerge in the network, add them to the denylist device group, and then add a rule to the end of your device match rules to exclude that device group from all of your Smart device groups.