One of the big advantages of PerformanceGuard is that you don't have to configure the agents that you have installed on your organization's computers. That's all taken care of automatically: When you deploy agents, they immediately connect to PerformanceGuard and get basic configurations. You can of course change those configurations later if required.
The behavior of your PerformanceGuard agents is controlled by agent configuration groups (ADMINISTRATION > Agent Configuration > Configurations). Each agent configuration group controls a number of agents. An agent can only be a member of one agent configuration group, and each agent will be associated with exactly one configuration.
PerformanceGuard comes with two default agent configuration groups:
- One for agents on computers with regular client operating systems
- One for agents on computers with server operating systems
This way, you can use separate configurations for agents on clients and servers. For example, you can keep data from servers for longer than you keep data from clients.
You can also set up additional agent configuration groups to suit your organization's needs.
View & Edit Existing Agent Configuration Groups
The table lists configuration groups that already exist.
Create New Agent Configuration Group
To create a new agent configuration group, use the fields below the Existing Configuration Groups table:
- Specify a Name for the new configuration group as well as a Description of it.
- Click the Create group button.
- The new configuration groups is added to the list of existing configuration groups (see the previous). You can now edit the configuration group and add members to it.
Active Directory Group Synchronization
PerformanceGuard has an integration with Active Directory (AD) that makes it possible for you to automatically synchronize computers in AD groups to PerformanceGuard agent configuration groups. For information about setting up such group synchronization, see Active Directory: Synchronize Computers and Groups.