Secure Internet and SaaS Access (ZIA)
About Location Groups
If you have many locations and associated sub-locations within your organization, consider using location groups. You can create manual location groups or dynamic location groups:
- Manual Location Groups: When creating a manual location group, you can manually assign any number of locations or sub-locations to it.
- Dynamic Location Groups: When creating a dynamic location group, you select the location attributes that locations or sub-locations must match to be assigned to the group. A dynamic group automatically updates to include any matching locations or sub-locations.
A location or sub-location must match all of a dynamic group's location attributes, including when only some of a location's or sub-location's attributes match. For example, consider that you’ve created a dynamic location group with the following attributes: the location name starts with “NYC” and the Enforce Bandwidth Control setting is enabled. A location named “NYC Office 1” that has Enforce Bandwidth Control and Enforce Firewall Control enabled can be assigned this group.
The following conditions apply when configuring manual or dynamic location groups:
- A location can join a location group independently of its sub-locations, and a sub-location independently of its parent location.
- A location or sub-location can be a member of multiple manual and dynamic location groups.
- Location groups can be used to define the scope of a new or existing admin. You can also select location groups for use in policies and reporting (i.e., Insights, Dashboards, etc.).
About the Location Groups Page
On the Location Groups page, you can do the following:
- Add a manual location group
- Add a dynamic location group
- Search for a location group by Name, Description, Last Modified By, Group Type, and Locations
- View a list of all location groups that were configured for your organization. For location groups, you can see the following:
- Name: The name of the group. You can sort this column.
- Type: Shows if the group is a manual or dynamic location group
- Number of Locations and Sub-Locations: The number of locations associated with the group. Clicking on the number displays the locations (and their sub-locations, if applicable) within the Locations page. You can sort this column.
- Last Modified By: The last admin user to modify the group. You can sort this column.
- Last Modified On: The date and time the group was last modified.
- Description: The description of the group, if available
- Edit a location group, including the ability to delete a group
- Modify the table and its columns
- Go to the Locations page, to configure new locations and their sub-locations or manage existing locations
- Go to the Azure Virtual WAN Locations page, to view and manage your synced Microsoft Azure hub site locations. This tab is only displayed if you have a Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN integration with Zscaler. To learn more, see About Partner Integrations.
