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Establishing communication with Central Manager

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Trellix IPS provides a centralized, "manager of managers" capability named Trellix Intrusion Prevention System Central Manager.

Trellix IPS Central Manager allows users to create a management hierarchy that centralizes policy creation, management, and distribution across multiple Trellix IPS Managers. For example, a policy can be created in the Central Manager and synchronized across all Managers added to that Central Manager. This avoids manual customization of policy at every Manager.

The Central Manager provides you with a single sign-on mechanism to manage the authentication of global users across all Managers. Sensor configuration and threat analysis tasks are performed at the Manager level.

A Manager can be added to Central Manager using a method similar to that of adding a Sensor to a Manager, or configure Managers to work in MDR mode by establishing trust between a Secondary and Primary pair.

Note

When trust is established between the Manager and Central Manager, the system may take approximately two minutes to display the configured Manager on the Central Manager Resource Tree.

The Manager → <Admin Domain Name> → Setup → Central Manager option enables the viewing and managing details for synchronizing with Central Manager.