Symantec 10268947 User Guide - Page 44

44 Getting Started About deploying node clusters software nodes and 7100 Series appliance nodes in your network simultaneously, and make full use of advanced capabilities. Clusters provide efficient administration of multiple nodes from a single console. Network Security console Master node Slave nodes Monitoring groups within a cluster The Network Security console provides a way to subdivide a cluster into different monitoring groups. You can then configure the Network Security console to display only the incidents of selected monitoring groups. In this way, you can manage the delegation of responsibilities in a large installation where each operator is responsible for only a subset of software or appliance nodes. This increases performance as well, because it reduces the number of incidents that a single Network Security console must load. When subdivided by monitoring groups, Symantec Network Security continues to perform cross-node correlation across all nodes in the cluster, even though the Network Security console displays incidents only from the subset. Selecting a monitoring group Symantec Network Security provides a way to display a subset of the incident list focused on only those software or appliance nodes that are included in the selected monitoring group.