Add Utility Appliance Devices to Utility Groups
This content describes how to add Utility Appliances to utility groups.
A Utility Group consists of a set of Utility Appliance devices that are associated together in a cluster. An end user can assign and deploy policies on:
- A single Utility Appliance device
- Different Utility Groups
- A combination of a Utility Appliance device and a Utility group
- Each Utility Appliance can only be assigned to one Utility Group at any time.
- The Utility Appliances grouped in a Utility Group run orchestration software to coordinate with each other. As such, these Utility Appliances should be co-located within the same network region, firewalled area, or Datacenter.
- PAM is unable to determine the location of Utility Appliances in relation to each other. As a result, you must know and set up the information in PAM appropriately.
To create a Utility Group, add Utility Appliance devices to Utility Groups with a provision type of
Utility Group
to make them operational. Each Utility device can belong to only one Utility Group.
To add Utility Appliance devices to Utility Groups, follow these steps:
- Navigate toDevices,Manage Device Groups.
- SelectAddto create a new device group for your Utility Appliances. TheAdd Device Groupdialog opens.
- Enter a name for the Utility Group in theNamefield.
- SelectUtility Groupfrom theProvision Typedrop-down.
- On theDevicestab, move the desired Utility Appliance devices from theAvailable Deviceslist to theSelected Devicescolumn.
- SelectOK.
PAM creates a cluster from the Utility Appliances in a Utility Group, starting the Distribution Server software on the Utility Appliances, which then start communicating with PAM.
To verify that the operation was successful, navigate to
Credentials
, Manage A2A
, A2A Clients
and check the status indicator beside the listed Utility Appliances.When updating a Utility Group,
do not
remove all
current members and add a new member or members in a single update operation.
Instead, use multiple updates as shown in the following procedure:
- Remove all members from the Utility Group and commit the change.
- Add the required new members to the Utility Group and commit the change.