Overview

Create and manage Local and Remote Device records and corresponding Company and People associations, as well as static Device Groups

Devices are the “target” of filter settings configured in Content Filter.

Note: for proper network operation:

• all Devices need to have the DrawBridge CA Security Certificate installed. See Essential Concepts: Web Page Classification: Traffic Visibility Prerequisites for further information.
• Remote Devices must have the correct External Networks assigned to them. See page Remote Devices in this chapter for further information.

Identifying Devices on the network

The DrawBridge has several ways of identifying Devices

• Local Devices via either
  • auto-created records via built-in network detection, or,
  • auto-created records via the DrawBridge Agent software (Windows-only), or,
  • manually created records by a user.
• Remote devices created by users; these authenticate with the DrawBridge username and password

In this chapter:

• Devices Dashboard
  • Local Devices
  • Remote Devices
  • Device Groups
• Apps: Device Configuration
  • SSL Certificates
  • External Networks

Devices Dashboard

• Local Devices: devices on the network where your DrawBridge is located.

  For example, the desktop you have in your office.

• Remote Devices: devices that access your DrawBridge from “outside” your network; ie. from the public Internet.

  For example, a laptop that’s configured to connect to your DrawBridge for filtering whenever you’re out on the road using a hotspot.

• Device Groups: entities that contain Local and/or Remote devices

Apps: Device Configuration

• SSL Certificates: mandatory SSL/TLS Certificate Authority security certificates for all devices connecting through a DrawBridge
• External Networks: list of external network information used for assisting Remote Device Authentication operations