Reinstall policies

You can reinstall the same versions of all the policies that are currently deployed to selected nodes and node groups. In addition, this deploys the instrumentation required by the categories to which the policies belong. This option is useful to restore policies and instrumentation after you manually reinstall an agent on a node.

If you reinstall policies and instrumentation on a node, the deployment job first removes all existing policy-related instrumentation from the selected managed nodes. Any instrumentation previously that you deployed using the Deploy instrumentation dialog box is not redeployed unless it belongs to a category that is shared by one of the redeployed policies. The default instrumentation categories for the DCE agent (action, command, and monitor) are not usually linked to policies and, as a result, the reinstallation job does not remove or redeploy them. If you reinstall policies on managed nodes where only policies with no category exist, then the reinstallation job does not remove or redeploy any instrumentation.

NOTE:
If you reinstall policies, the management server does not reinstall the agent or any other packages.

To reinstall policies and instrumentation

1. In the console tree, select the nodes or node groups on which you want to reinstall policies and instrumentation.
2. Right-click your selection, and then click All Tasks Reinstall/Update.... The Reinstall/Update Node dialog box opens. The reinstall option is already selected.
3. In the list under Scope, select Policies.
4. Optional. Select the Ignore missing policies/packages check box. If the node inventory contains policies that are not available on this management server, the management server creates a warning in the event log and the job succeeds. Otherwise, if you clear this check box, the job succeeds only if all the policies in the node inventory are available on this management server.
5. Optional. If another management server has already deployed a version of a policy to a node, that management server owns the policy on that node. If you want to redeploy the policy from this management server, and transfer the ownership, select the Ignore policy owner check box. You must have the user right to ignore policy ownership. The management server that you are connected to must be a primary or secondary manager of the node. If you do not select this check box, the management server reinstalls only the policies that it owns.
6. Click OK. The management server creates a deployment job, which reinstalls the policies and instrumentation.
7. In the console tree, click Deployment jobs and use the details pane to verify that the deployment job has completed successfully.

   NOTE:
   Small deployment jobs sometimes complete so quickly that you do not get the chance to observe them. In addition, the list of deployment jobs which remain visible in the details pane for any length of time have typically failed, or are either pending or suspended.