Synchronize policies and packages

The management server keeps an inventory of the policies and packages that are currently installed on the node. It is possible for this inventory to become inaccurate in the following situations:

• After an administrator manually installs or removes the policies or packages on the node.
• After an administrator or program disables or enables a policy locally on a node.
• In an environment with multiple management servers, after a different management server changes the policies or packages on a node.
• After an administrator removes a policy or package using the force option, but the policy or package remains on the node.

You can update the inventory information on the management server by synchronizing. The management server replaces the current inventory with up-to-date details of installed policies and packages from the node.

If a node has a policy or package that does not exist on the management server, the management server adds a placeholder to the inventory. The management server does not receive the contents of the policy or package, so you cannot change it or deploy it to other nodes.

NOTE:
You can synchronize policies and packages on nodes that have the HTTPS agent. On nodes that have the DCE agent, you can only synchronize packages.

If a node has no agent (because, for example, an administrator removed it manually), it is not possible to synchronize policies or packages at all.

To synchronize policies and packages

1. In the console tree, right-click the node or node group that you want to synchronize.

2. Click one of the following menu items:

   • All TasksSynchronize inventory Packages
   • All TasksSynchronize inventory Policies
   • All TasksSynchronize inventory Policies and packages

   The management server creates a deployment job to retrieve the inventory from each node.

Related Topics:

• View installed policies
• View installed packages and subpackages
• Configuring Agents
• Synchronize packages
• Deployment jobs