17.3 Creating Policy Groups

A policy group lets you organize policies to ease administration and to provide easier assigning and scheduling of the policies in the policy group.

To create a policy group:

  1. In the ZENworks Control Center, click the Policies tab.

    Policies tab

  2. Click New, then click Policy Group to display the Basic Information page.

    Basic Information page

  3. Fill in the fields:

    • Group name: (Required) Provide a unique name for your policy group. The name you provide displays in the ZENworks Control Center interface (the administrative tool for ZENworks Linux Management) and in the user interface.

      For more information, see Section C.0, Naming Conventions in the ZENworks Control Center.

    • Folder: (Required) Type the name or browse to the folder that contains this policy group.

    • Description: Provide a short description of the policy group's contents. This description displays in the ZENworks Control Center.

  4. Click Next to display the Summary page.

    Review the information on the Summary page, making any changes to the policy-group settings by using the Back button as necessary.

    Depending on your needs, you can create the policy group now or you can specify members, assignments, and schedules for this policy group.

  5. Click Finish to create the policy as configured according to the settings on the Summary page. If you click Finish, the policy group is created but it does not have members, devices assigned, a schedule, and so forth. At some point in the future, you need to configure additional options for the policy group by continuing with Section 17.4, Assigning Policies.

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    Click Next to display the Add Group Members page to perform the following tasks:

    • Specify members for this policy group

    • Specify assignments for this policy group

    • Specify the schedule to apply the policy-group assignments

    Add Group Members page

  6. Specify the policies to include in this policy group.

    1. Click Add to browse for and select the appropriate policy objects.

    2. Click the underlined link in the Name column to select the desired policies and display their names in the Selected list box.

    3. Click OK.

  7. Click Next to display the Add Assignments page.

    Add Assignments page

  8. Assign the policy group to the desired devices.

    1. Click Add to browse for and select the appropriate device objects.

      You can also select Folder or Group objects.

    2. Click the down-arrow next to Servers or Workstations to expand the list, then click the underlined link in the Name column to select the desired objects and display their names in the Selected list box.

      Assigning a policy to a Group object is the preferred method of assigning the policy. Assigning the policy to a large number of objects (for example, more than 250) might cause increased server utilization.

    3. Click OK.

  9. Click Next to display the Schedule page.

  10. Select the schedule to apply to the assignments.

    The settings you configure on this page determine when the policies in the policy group are assigned to devices.

    See Section 15.3, Schedules for information about the available schedules.

  11. Click Next to display the Summary page, then review the information, making any changes to the settings by using the Back button as necessary.

  12. Click Finish.