An Agent group is a collection of Agents of the same type grouped together for common resource protection. The advantage of Agent Groups is that you can provide access to the same resource to a larger user base because the resource is duplicated on many web servers/Web Agents. It also saves time because you define only one policy for all of the Web Agents. For example, you can use an Agent group to protect a group of Web Servers that use round robin processing to supply access to the same resources.
In the following figure, you can protect the Web farm with one set of policies, and create an Agent group that is bound to the set of policies.
You can create Agent groups even if the Agents you want to include in a group have not yet been created. Once you add a new Agent in SiteMinder, you can edit an Agent group and add the new Agent to the group.
Note: If you configure Agent groups, you cannot directly assign a set of parameter values to an Agent group. You can assign the same Agent Configuration Object to multiple agents and edit the object.
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