Kaspersky Secure Mobility Management

Creating administration groups

To apply a policy to a group of devices, you are advised to create a separate group for these devices prior to installing mobile management apps.

An administration group is a logical set of managed devices combined on the basis of a specific trait for the purpose of managing the grouped devices as a single unit within Kaspersky Security Center.

All managed devices within an administration group are configured to do the following:

• Use the same settings, which you can specify in policies.
• Use a common operating mode for all applications through the creation of group tasks with specified settings. Examples of group tasks include creating and installing a common installation package, updating the application databases and modules, scanning the device on demand, and enabling real-time protection.

A managed device can belong to only one administration group.

You can create hierarchies that have any degree of nesting for Administration Servers and groups. A single hierarchy level can include secondary and virtual Administration Servers, groups, and managed devices. You can also move devices from one group to another.

Immediately after Kaspersky Security Center is installed, the hierarchy of administration groups contains only one administration group called Managed devices. When creating a hierarchy of administration groups, you can add devices to the Managed devices group, and add nested groups.

To create an administration group:

1. In the main window of Kaspersky Security Center Web Console, select Assets (Devices) > Hierarchy of groups.
2. In the administration group structure, select the administration group that the new administration group will belong to.
3. Click Add.
4. In the Name of the new administration group window that opens, enter a name for the group, and then click Add.

A new administration group with the specified name appears in the hierarchy of administration groups.

To automatically create a structure of administration groups:

1. In the main window of Kaspersky Security Center Web Console, select Assets (Devices) > Hierarchy of groups.
2. Click Import.

The New administration group structure wizard starts. Follow the instructions of the wizard.

After creating an administration group, we recommend configuring the option to automatically assign devices on which you want to install apps to this group. Then configure the settings that are common to all devices using a specific policy.