ZTNA Groups

Learn how to create ZTNA groups for your Edge Routers.

ZTNA groups are a way to categorize and associate your Edge Routers into specific categories of your choosing. This helps you segregate Edge Router communication and more easily manage the destination of your ZTNA connections.

For example, a group named prod-onpremise defined by a user will only consist of Edge Routers on the Production environment that are hosted in an on-premise infrastructure.

When creating a new Edge Router on the Connectivity page of the Digibee Integration Platform, you can create a custom group to segregate your Edge Routers. Each group can have an unlimited number of Edge Routers and each Network Mapping will be associated with the Edge Routers across the groups.

View groups

To view your created groups:

1. Click the Connectivity button on the top right corner of the Platform’s home page.

2. The Connectivity page opens on the Edge Router tab. In this tab, you can view:

   • The name of the Edge Router

   • Whether the Edge Router has an inverse flow

   • The Edge Router group

   • Whether the Edge Router is online

   • The status of the Edge Router

   • Whether the Edge Router is registered

   • Actions that can be performed

Create groups

You can create groups in two ways:

Creating a group when creating a new Edge Router

1. Click the Create Edge Router button on the Connectivity page.

2. Enter the name for the Edge Router.

3. Choose a name to associate the Edge Router with.

4. If you want to add the new Edge Router to an existing group, type the name of the desired group.

5. Click Save.

Adding a group to an existing Edge Router

To modify which group an Edge Router belongs to:

1. Click the Edit icon of the selected Edge Router.

2. Enter the name of the new group or select an existing group to associate with the Edge Router.

3. Click Save.

A group can only exist if it’s associated with an Edge Router. Otherwise, this group is automatically deleted.

Naming groups

To name Edge Router groups, use lowercase letters and avoid spaces. You can use hyphens to separate words. For example: prod-gcp or test-devs.

Network Mappings associated with an Edge Router

To create a Network Mapping, you need to associate it with an Edge Router, which in turn is associated with a group. When modifying an Edge Router's group, remember to also change the group that the Edge Router is associated with.

1. Click the Network Mappings tab.

2. Click the Edit icon of the selected Network Mapping.

3. On Edge Router Group, select the desired group.

4. Click Save.

Inverse flow

When creating an Inverse Network Mapping to create an Inverse Flow, an Edge Router is instantly created on the Digibee side. This Edge Router is automatically associated with a group called Inverse, which cannot be modified.

Read the documentation to learn more about Inverse Flow.

FAQs

I created my Network Mappings and my Edge Routers before this feature was released. Will this harm my current connections?

Existing connections are not harmed by the creation of this feature. They are sent to the corresponding groups according to the environments that were previously defined. For example, Edge Routers created in the Prod environment are now part of the prod group.

You can choose to keep the groups as they are or you can create new groups and segregate the Edge Routers and Network Mappings within them.