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Hosts and Host Groups

To use advanced policy management, you need to define your enterprise implementation of CA ControlMinder. To do this, you create HNODE objects to represent endpoints (or hosts) and GHNODE objects to represent logical host groups A logical host group is a group resource (of class GHNODE) whose members are endpoints (HNODE objects). You use logical host groups to represent a grouping of one or more hosts that were created for policy management purposes.. Hosts can be members of a number of logical host groups depending on their properties and policy demands. For example, if you have hosts running a Red Hat operating system and Oracle, these can be members of a Red Hat logical host group to get the baseline Red Hat access control policy, and also members of the Oracle logical host group to get the Oracle access control policy.