Acknowledging New Devices on Zenconsole

Published on: December 14, 2023

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When Zenarmor detects a new device on your network, it notifies you via the notification bar on the top of the Devices page so that you may acknowledge and decide whether you want to trust newly detected devices.

Figure 1. New Detected Device Notification

You may click View button on the notification bar to see newly discovered devices. These will list the devices recently detected by Zenarmor.

Figure 2. Viewing Newly Detected Devices List

You may view the details of each device by clicking on them individually. In most cases, you will see a message indicating that Initial identification in progress on the details page of a recently discovered device. That means Zenarmor has not yet finalized the procedure for device identification. Consequently, certain fields of the device's information, such as category, operating system, and hardware vendor, might be inaccurate, and Zenarmor may update them autonomously in the future.

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We will show the 'Initial identification in progress' event if devices were first seen within the last 48 hours.

Figure 3. Viewing Details of a Newly Detected Device

You may perform the following bulk actions on newly detected devices:

• Mark as Trusted
• Mark as Untrusted

You may follow the next steps to mark newly detected devices as trusted or untrusted in a bulk operation:

1. Navigate to the Devices page of your firewall on Zenconsole UI.

2. Click on the View button in the notification bar at the top of the page, or click on the New menu on the left-hand side of the page. These will list the newly discovered devices.

3. Click the Select All button in the notification bar at the top of the page. This will automatically select all detected devices.

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   To remove the selection from the device list, you may click the Unselect All button in the notification bar located at the top of the page or the Clear link situated on the right-hand side of the page.

   Figure 4. Selecting all devices for bulk action

4. Click the Mark as Trusted or Mark as Untrusted button on the right side of the page for bulk action. This will open a window for confirming the operation.

5. Click the "Confirm" button to confirm the bulk update. This will automatically remove New menu from the left sidebar on the Devices page list removing the devices.

   Figure 5. Confirming bulk action

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You may also mark a newly detected device as Trusted or Untrusted individually via its device details page.