Citrix Clone Considerations for Carbon Black Windows Sensors

This topic describes how a Citrix clone receives a Device ID and is assigned to a policy.

Important: Asset Groups is available to Carbon Black Cloud customers on 27 November 2023. Carbon Black recommends that you upgrade from Sensor Groups to Asset Groups as soon as it is operationally feasible for your organization. Sensor Groups will be phased out by 01 December 2024. See Asset Groups and Sensor Groups in the User Guide.

The reregister command is needed to register new clones with a unique Device ID.

When reregister now is run, a clone performs the following operations:

1. The endpoint requests a new Device ID.
2. The new Device ID is identified as a VDI endpoint on the backend.
3. The endpoint inherits the policy from the primary image unless one of the following conditions applies. Manual policy assignment post-installation overrides the inheritance.
   • You have previously created Asset Groups and the installed sensor matches an Asset Group’s criteria.
   • You have previously created Sensor Groups and the installed sensor matches a Sensor Group’s criteria.

   Note: With the 3.7+ Windows sensor, a reboot is needed on VDI clones to fully apply new ransomware protections.