5.0 Managing Policies

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management lets you use effectively manage software and content in your ZENworks system. In addition to editing and deleting existing objects, you can create new objects and perform various tasks on the objects.

You can use ZENworks Control Center or the zman command line utility to manage policies. This section explains how to perform this task by using ZENworks Control Center. If you prefer the zman command line utility, see Policy Commands in the ZENworks Command Line Utilities Reference.

Section 5.1, Creating Policies
Section 5.2, Viewing the Policy’s Summary
Section 5.3, Policy Groups
Section 5.4, Editing Policies
Section 5.5, Deleting Policies
Section 5.6, Adding Policies to Groups
Section 5.7, Assigning a Policy to Devices
Section 5.8, Assigning a Policy to Users
Section 5.9, Assigning a Roaming Profile Policy for a User Profile Stored on a Windows, Linux, or NetWare Share
Section 5.10, Assigning a Roaming Profile Policy for a User Profile Stored on a Home Directory
Section 5.11, Assigning the Local File Rights Policy to Devices Running Different Languages
Section 5.12, Unassigning a Policy from Devices
Section 5.13, Unassigning a Policy from Users
Section 5.14, Adding System Requirements for a Policy
Section 5.15, Disabling Policies
Section 5.16, Enabling the Disabled Policies
Section 5.17, Copying a Policy to a Content Server
Section 5.18, Publish a Policy
Section 5.19, Reviewing the Status of the Policies at the Managed Device
Section 5.20, Policy Issues on a Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2 device
Section 5.21, Viewing the Predefined Reports
Section 5.22, Understanding Policy Versions
Section 5.23, Managing Policy Versions
Section 5.24, Older Policy Versions Retain Setting
Section 5.25, Publishing a Sandbox
Section 5.26, Policy Behavior Based on Content Replication Settings