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FireSIGHT System User Guide
 
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Managing Devices
The Defense Center is a key component in the FireSIGHT System. You can use the Defense Center to 
manage the full range of devices that comprise the FireSIGHT System, and to aggregate, analyze, and 
respond to the threats they detect on your network.
By using the Defense Center to manage devices, you can:
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configure policies for all your devices from a single location, making it easier to change 
configurations
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install various types of software updates on devices
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push health policies to your managed devices and monitor their health status from the Defense 
Center
The Defense Center aggregates and correlates intrusion events, network discovery information, and 
device performance data, allowing you to monitor the information that your devices are reporting in 
relation to one another, and to assess the overall activity occurring on your network.
For more information, see the following sections:
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 describes some of the features and limitations involved with 
managing your devices with a Defense Center.
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 describes the principles of setting up the management of 
your devices in Network Address Translation environments.
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 describes how to set up two Defense Centers as a high 
availability pair to help ensure continuity of operations.
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 describes how to establish and disable connections between 
devices and your Defense Center. It also explains how to add, delete, and change the state of 
managed devices.
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 describes how to establish and disable remote 
management of a managed device.
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 describes how to create device groups as well as how to add 
and remove devices from groups.
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 describes how to establish and manage high availability between two 
managed devices.
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 describes the device attributes you can edit and explains 
how to edit them.
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 describes how to create a stack of managed devices and how 
to remove devices from a stack.