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60 COMMANDCENTER SECURE GATEWAY ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
Describe Devices
a. Click the Describe Devices tab in the Device Group: New panel. In the Describe Devices
tab, you create a table of rules that describe the devices you want to assign to the group.
Figure 59 Describe Devices Tab
b. Click the Add New Row icon to add a row to the table.
c. Double-click the cell created for each column to activate a drop-down menu. Select the rule
components you want to use from each list.
• Prefix – Leave this blank or select NOT. If NOT is selected, this rule will filter for
values opposite of the rest of the expression.
• Category – Select an attribute that will be evaluated in the rule. All categories you
created in the Association Manager will be available here.
• Operator – Select a comparison operation to be performed between the Category and
Element items. Three operators are available: = (is equal to), LIKE (used for find the
Element in a name) and <> (is not equal to).
• Element – Select a value for the Category attribute to be compared against. Only
elements associated with the selected category will display here (for example: if
evaluating a “Department” category, “Location” elements will not appear here).
• Rule Name- This is a name assigned to the rule in this row. It is not editable, it is used
for writing descriptions in the Short Expression field.
An example rule might be Department = Engineering, meaning it describes all
devices that the category “Department” set to “Engineering.” This is exactly what happens
when you configure the associations during an Add Device operation.
d. If you want to add another rule, click Add New Row, and then make the necessary
configurations. Configuring multiple rules will allow more precise descriptions by providing
multiple criteria for evaluating devices.
e. The table of rules only makes available criteria for evaluating nodes. To write a description
for the device group, add the rules by Rule Name to the Short Expression field. If the