Role and purpose of policies in the policy tree structure

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Each policy in the Policy Tree is assigned an icon on the left. The meaning of icons are as follows:

 

1) Policies with blue icons refer to those present on the given server. There are three subgroups of blue icons:

 

Obraz20510 Icons with white targets – Policy was created on that server. In addition, it is not down replicable, which means it is not assigned to clients from lower servers and also it does not serve as a parent policy for the child servers. These policies can only be applied within the server – to clients connected to the server. It can also serve as a parent policy for another policy from the same server.

 

Obraz20516Icons with blue targets – Policy was also created on the server, however, the option Override any child policy is selected (for more information, see chapter How to create policies).

 

Obraz20522Obraz20528Icons with downward arrows – these policies are replicated – the option Down replicable policy is enabled. You can apply these policies on the given server and on its child servers.

 

2) Policies with grey icons originate from other servers.

 

Obraz20534 Icons with upward arrows – These policies are replicated from child servers. They can only be viewed or deleted with the option Delete Policy Branch. This option will not delete the policy itself, it will only remove the policy from the Policy Tree. Therefore they can reappear after replication. If you do not want to display policies from lower servers, use the option Hide foreign servers policies not used in policy tree.

 

Obraz20540 Icons with downward arrows – These policies are replicated from upper servers. They can be used as Parent policies for other policies, assigned to clients (Add Clients) or removed (Delete Policy). Please note that deleting will only delete the policy – it will reappear after replication from the upper server (unless the attribute Down replicable policy has been disabled on the upper server).

 

NOTE: To move and assign policies within the structure, you can either select the parent policy, or drag-and-drop it with the mouse.

 

Existing policy rules can be imported/exported from/to an .xml file by clicking on the Import.../Export... button. Name conflicts during the import (existing and imported policy with the same name) are solved by assigning a random string after the name of an imported policy.