Subnets are automatically detected based on device connections, but they can also be manually created. You may want to manually create Subnets to prepare that Subnet for management with HPCA. Creating a Subnet manually enables you to assign that Subnet to the appropriate Location before Agents being installed on that Subnet. When Agents are later installed on that Subnet, they will already be associated with the appropriate Location.
As part of Subnet creation, you assign a Subnet to a regional Location. Devices that belong to a particular Location because of Subnet assignment will contact the Servers and Server Pools associated with that Location to resolve policy and retrieve data.
The following procedure explains how to manually create a Subnet.
To create a new Subnet:
The Subnet is added to the Subnet list on the Subnets tab.