Carbon Black Cloud: Is it possible to move deregistered Sensors from one Policy to the default or any other Policy?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)

Issue/Introduction

Is it possible to move deregistered Sensors from one Policy to the default or any other Policy?

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Web Console: All Supported Versions
• Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: All Supported Versions

Resolution

It is not possible to change the Policy of a Sensor once it has been deregistered, as you will receive the following error...

Error
No valid devices selected to change policy

 

Additional Information

• When the need arises to re-install a sensor on the same machine by issuing a re-register command via the console, instead of performing a new install.
• It is best to change the Policy on the Sensor prior to de-registering it via the dashboard