Automated assigning of clients to different groups based on a list in a text file?

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Hello,

I have discovered all 500 computers on a network with SEC. They are now in the "Unassigned" group, waiting to assign them to different groups. They don't have Sophos Endpoint Protection yet.

They are/were previously managed by another AV software. From this software I can export the list of computers by groups to a txt file. I don't want to assign all 500 computers one by one to its group, but I want to use these text files. Is it possible?

Unfortunately they have "random" IP and workgroup settings, so it is not possible to, for example add all 10.1.0.1-10.1.0.255 computers to one group...

Regards,

Thomas

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jak · Accepted Answer

Hi, Have you tried constructing from these third-party text files, the files that can be imported into SEC? The SEC help has details on the format of the file to import from text (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Sophos/Enterprise%20Console/Help/Eng/tasks/find_05_import.html), you don't need to worry about the OS and Domain name, that will be reported back once the client is managed. Once the records are imported into SEC groups you can remove the original entries from unnassigned, as the clients are protected they should match up with the values in the SEC groups. Regards, Jak :29121