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Keep in mind the following distribution best practices:
  • Segment groups - To control which updates segments receive, you can create segment groups. You can then send profile updates, including all custom changes to filters, shared settings, action sets, and notification contacts according to the group.
    When distributing a profile, you can also select to distribute to the entire segment group, a single segment, several segments, or a combination of segments and segments groups.
  • Filter overrides - Filter modifications that require distribution include the following items:
    • New, modified, or deleted shared and custom filter exceptions.
    • New, modified, or deleted filters.
    • Modified Traffic Management filters. The SMS enforces the maximum number of Traffic Management filters that can be distributed to a device based on device capacity.
    • Changing the order of the Traffic Management filters.
      Note
      Note
      When you enter a significant number of changes to filters within a profile, the period of time required for distributing the profile increases.
  • Named resources - Devices are not aware of named resources. When you distribute a profile that contains named IP address groups, the SMS sends every combination of the source and destination IP address pairs to the device. For example, if a filter exception has a source and destination named IP address group and each group has two IP addresses, then the SMS will send four filter exceptions to the device, and each exception will contain a pair of source and destination IP addresses.
  • Digital Vaccine, Auxiliary Digital Vaccines, and DV Toolkit packages - When you distribute a profile, the SMS verifies that all managed devices run the same Digital Vaccine, Auxiliary Digital Vaccine, or Digital Vaccine Toolkit versions. We recommend that you distribute the active Digital Vaccine, Auxiliary Digital Vaccine, or DV Toolkit to the device before you distribute the profile.
    • An active DV Toolkit package enables the package for distribution; it does not enable the filters in the DV Toolkit package. You must distribute the package and the profile to the device to enable the filters within the DV Toolkit package. When you distribute a DV Toolkit package, you update the filter settings for the device. A package may include modifications, such as new filters, modified filters, and removed filters.
    • The SMS merges multiple DV Toolkit packages into a single package as the device only supports one DV Toolkit package.