Carbon Black Cloud: How To Change A Sensor From Manually Assigned To Auto-Assigned
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Products
Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)
Issue/Introduction
Change a sensor from Manually Assigned to Auto-Assigned, thereby allowing a sensor to be automatically assigned to an existing Sensor Group, based on its criteria
Environment
Carbon Black Cloud (formerly PSC) Sensor: January '18 Release and Later
Resolution
Select the Endpoints Page from the left-hand menu in the Carbon Black Cloud Console
Select the sensor(s) you wish to Auto-Assign
From the 'Take Action' drop-down menu select 'Assign policy'
Select Automatic assignment option
Click the 'Save' Button
Additional Information
The default status of Sensors when installed via the Unattended Installation method and specifying the 'Group_Name' syntax, is 'Manually Assigned'
If Sensor Groups are configured in the environment, it will override what is set at install. To override the automatic grouping, manual policy assignment post install is required.
Sensors prior to 3.6.0.1897 did not report metadata updates unless a change had been made, this would effect sensor grouping and cause some endpoints to get stuck on "manually assigned".