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Sites Management

A Site within the application serves as a unit for partitioning configuration, management, security, and content. Each application tenant includes a Root Site, and Site owners have the ability to create multiple Sub-sites (also known as child sites) within the root or any other Site. This hierarchical structure establishes Parent and Child relationships among Sites. Site owners can view and use configurations managed by their parent Site but cannot edit or delete them.

Furthermore, Site owners have the ability to create, edit, or delete configurations within their own Site. Sub-sites can view and use these configurations but cannot edit or delete them. However, Parent sites cannot view configurations managed by their child sites. Additionally, only sub-sites have access to view or edit their own site configurations. All assets and asset containers are unique to each Site, making Sites function like high-level containers in this regard.

Users with appropriate permissions can log in directly to sub-sites by entering its URL. Alternatively, they can navigate to a sub-site by browsing through the site hierarchy.

Sites are useful in a number of different scenarios such as:

  • Delegation of management to geographical or departmental sub-divisions
  • Project management for short lived temporary projects
  • DevOp groups support to manage configuration, users, permission schema and assets for operational activities

Creating Sites

To create a new Site:

  1. Log in with an Administrator or Site Manager account.
  2. Navigate to Management > Sites and click the Add button.
  3. Enter a Name that is alphanumeric and does not contain any space characters.
  4. Select a Language for this Site from the drop down menu.
  5. Click the Save button to complete this operation.

After the site have been created, you may access it using the Navigate option located in the Actions menu or you can manually navigate it through the address bar URL in your browser.

A site URL is constructed like this: https://host:port/ztna/tenantName/siteName

Managing Sites

To manage Sites:

  1. Log in with an Administrator or Site Manager account.
  2. Navigate to Management > Sites, locate the Site to be managed and use the available options in the Actions column to perform an action.
    • Show Details: use the expansion down arrow to show details of the selected Site.
    • Edit: use the edit option to make changes to the selected Site.
    • Navigate: use the navigate option to open this Site in your browser tab.
    • Delete: use the delete option to delete this Site. This operation cannot be undone.
  3. Click the Save button to complete an Edit operation.

Note

If the Name of an existing Site is updated, the URL to this Site will also be updated to reflect this name change. For example, if the Name is changed from "Infrastructure" to "Devices" then the Site URL will no longer be accessible from /Infrastructure and will only be accessible from /Devices. This could lead to user confusion and broken bookmarks, so we recommend choosing an appropriate Name during the creation process to avoid having to update it at a later time.