5.26 Policy Behavior Based on Content Replication Settings

When you created a policy in earlier versions of ZENworks, the policy inherited the content replication settings from its parent folder by default. However, with the introduction of Policy Change Management, the behavior has been changed. For more information on this change, see the following table:

Task

Information

Creating a policy (not as a sandbox)

The new policy inherits the settings from its parent folder by default.

Creating a policy as a sandbox

The new policy neither inherits settings from its parent folder nor does it replicate content by default.

To replicate the content on new Primary Servers:

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the policy.

  2. Click the Settings tab.

  3. Click Pre-Cached Content.

  4. In the Pre-Cached Content panel, select the required Primary or Satellite Server.

To replicate the content on new Satellite Servers:

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the policy.

  2. Click the Settings tab.

  3. Click Pre-Cached Content.

  4. In the Pre-Cached Content panel, select the required Primary or Satellite Server.

NOTE:The Sync sandbox Content to Content Servers option on the sandbox Settings page of the policy is deselected and is not editable.

Creating a sandbox from a published version or an older version of the policy

The sandbox version of the policy neither inherits settings from its parent folder nor does it replicate content by default.

To replicate the content on new Primary and Satellite Servers:

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the policy.

  2. Click the Settings tab.

  3. Click sandbox Settings.

  4. In the sandbox Content Replication panel, select the Sync sandbox Content to Content Servers option.

NOTE:If precaching is disabled in the zone, or policy level, then irrespective of the status of the Sync Sandbox Content to Content Servers option under Policies Level, the content will not be replicated and will be served using the ondemand method.

Publishing a policy to create a new policy as a sandbox

If you publish a policy to create a new policy with the Create as Sandbox option selected then the new policy is created as a sandbox. The new policy neither inherits settings from its parent folder nor does it replicate content by default.

To replicate the content on new Primary Servers:

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the policy.

  2. Click the Settings tab.

  3. Click Primary Server Replication.

  4. In the Primary Server Replication Status panel, select the New Primary Servers added to the system will include this content by default.

If you want to replicate the content on new Satellite Servers, do the following:

  1. Click the policy.

  2. Click the Settings tab.

  3. Click Pre-Cached Content.

  4. In the Pre-Cached Content panel, select the required Primary or Satellite Server.

NOTE:The Sync sandbox Content to Content Servers option on the sandbox Settings page of the policy is deselected and is not editable.

Publishing a policy to create a new policy (not as a sandbox)

The settings of the new policy depend on the source policy from which it has been created.

  • If you publish a sandbox-only policy whose replication settings have not been modified, the new policy inherits settings from the parent folder.

  • If you publish a sandbox-only policy whose replication settings have been modified, the modified replication settings are copied to the new policy.

  • If you publish a sandbox that has been created from a published version or an older version of a policy, the content replication settings from the published version of the source policy are copied to new policy.