Policy Management

Mark Sutherland

Chad Gniffke

“A policy is typically described as a principle or rule to guide decisions and achieve a rational outcome.”

Gain Efficiencies

PolicyManagement

Use Case 1

New Customer On Boarding

Patch

ing

Remote Control Settings

Agent Procedures

Local Admin User

Monitor Sets

Alert Thresholds

Scheduling

Granularity & Exceptions

Difficult

The New Setup

DirectoryServices

PolicyManagement

Configure Your Policy Set

PolicySet

Policy Objects

• Agent Menu• Agent Procedures• Alerts• Check-in• Credential• Distribute File• Logging

• Machine Profile• Monitor Sets• Patch Settings• Protection• Remote Control• Working Directory

• More to come…

Alert Object

Patching Object

Policy Objects

• Agent Menu• Agent Procedures• Alerts• Check-in• Credential• Distribute File• Logging

• Machine Profile• Monitor Sets• Patch Settings• Protection• Remote Control• Working Directory

• More to come…

Policy Driven by Views

Use Case 2

Customer Past Due

No Pay Policy

Policy Associations

• One to Many– Policy to Org– Policy to Machine Group– Policy to Machine

• Tie a policy to a View– Example: Server/Workstation

Patch Policy Example

• All Servers• All Workstations• All Exchange• All SQL• All high

maintenance users

Policy Status

• In Compliance• Marked for Deployment• Out of Compliance• Override• Inactive• No Policy Attached

Deployment and Compliance

Policy Grid & Logs

By Machine Assignment

Dashboards

Questions