You can manage your devices individually or in a fleet. You can manage a whole fleet of devices as a single object instead of managing many devices individually.

You only need to specify the desired configuration once and then the Red Hat Edge Manager applies the configuration to all devices in the fleet.

Understanding individual device management is the foundation for managing devices in a fleet. You might want to manage your devices individually in the following scenarios:

• A device has a unique configuration that does not fit a shared fleet template.
• You are testing or troubleshooting a specific device before applying changes more broadly.

For fleet-level device management, see Managing device fleets in the Additional resources section.