Maintain policies

HPOM provides two vehicles for maintaining and organizing policies, policy types and policy groups.

Policy type

Policy group

Policy groups allow you organize your policies, but how you organize them is up to you. You might group policies by the kind of system that they manage (workstation or server), by operating system (Windows or UNIX), or by function (network management or service management).

If you edit a policy by clicking on its icon in a policy group, that group will contain the new version of the policy. Other policy groups may still contain the old version of the policy, although you can assign the latest policy version to a group, or use the update to latest command to quickly update the polices in other policy groups. (The policy type icon will display the new version if the new version has the newest version number.) Policies can be deleted from the system only if they are not currently deployed on any managed node.

NOTE:
You may not be able to edit some policies, because the policy data is not available on the management server. When you synchronize a node, the management server adds the node's policies to the inventory, even if the policy data does not exist on the management server. Policy data may be missing for one of the following reasons:

• Another management server deployed the policy, and there are different policies and policy versions available on that management server.
• The policy exists on a node, but was removed from the management server using the force option.

To modify a policy

1. Find the policy in the console tree under Agent policies grouped by type, Server policies grouped by type, or Policy groups.
2. Right-click the policy and select All Tasks Edit...
3. When the policy editor appears, make your changes.
4. When you're done editing the policy, select Save and Close.

• Change policy version
• Create a new policy
• Delete a policy from the management server
• Edit an old version of a policy
• View installed policies