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Entity types

Entities displayed on the Network page are grouped by type, each having distinct characteristics and management options. They include companies, folders, endpoints, and cloud workloads.

You can view the available network structure in the left-side pane. To customize the columns displayed in the table, click the Open settings button at the right side of the action toolbar.

Network folders

Network folders (also displayed as custom groups) are organizational containers created under Network > Computers and Groups location. You can create multiple folders within this hierarchy to reflect your physical offices, departments, or management tiers. Within the company hierarchy, folders can exist on the same level as endpoints.

To create a network folder:

  1. In the GravityZone Control Center left-side menu, go to Network.

  2. In the tree view panel on the left, locate Network > Computers and Groups.

  3. Click the network_protection_custom_pages_more_menu_icon.png ellipsis icon next to Network or an existing group to open the action menu.

  4. Select Create new group.

  5. Enter a name for the folder.

  6. Click the confirm.png OK icon.

The new folder is created in the desired location.

Physical and virtual machines

Physical and virtual machines represent workstations, laptops, and servers running on physical hardware or virtual platforms (such as VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix Prism, Citrix, or cloud instances like Amazon EC2).

To view endpoints under your account, go to Network in the left-side menu and select the desired group from the left pane.

  • Unmanaged endpoints: When first detected in your network or imported via integrations, computers and virtual machines are displayed as unmanaged so you can remotely install protection on them.

  • Managed endpoints: Once the Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools (BEST) agent is installed, endpoints report their real-time status and security posture, allowing you to run tasks, configure policies, and investigate security events.

    For details about installing the security agent on endpoints, refer to Security agents.

For endpoint classification as a server and workstation, refer to Endpoint types.

From the Network page, you can manage endpoints as follows:

Containers

Containers represents an isolated, lightweight software execution environment running on a container engine (such as Docker) hosted on a managed Linux system (container host).

In the GravityZone inventory, containers appear under their respective container host.

For details about installing the security agent on containers, refer to Security Containers.

From the Network section, you can manage containers as follows:

AD integration

Active Directory and directory integrations represent synchronized tree views that reflect the organizational structure of your Microsoft Active Directory domains, organizational units (OUs), and computer containers.

Endpoints discovered via Active Directory appear within their native directory hierarchy. This allows administrators to easily identify unmanaged systems, deploy protection packages to machines within selected organizational units, and automatically keep the inventory in sync with domain membership changes.

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