Device collections

Device collections make it easier to manage devices of the same type if the same settings are to apply to them, while reducing the number of whitelist rules required. They may contain several similar devices and can be used as a device collection rule when configuring whitelist rules - similar to using individual devices based on their hardware ID.

From version 2024.1, device collections can also contain device classes of different types. In a policy from the Policy Editor, use the All classes option for this.

If the device collections also contain MTP devices, it is not possible to use access permissions for DriveLock groups.

When creating a new collections, you also select the device class from the list of available classes. This device class determines which types of devices you can include in the collection; it cannot be changed after saving the collection the first time.

In this way, managing the collections and the configuration of device security and blocking settings are kept separate.