A Policy On A Machine Or A Group - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server User Manual

Deploying a policy transfers the established correspondence to the machines. Physically, a bundle of
tasks is created on each machine according to the configuration provided by the policy.
Revoking a policy is the reverse action to the aggregate of applying and deploying. Revoking removes
the correspondence between the policy and one or more machines and then removes the tasks from
the machines.
If a machine is not available or not reachable at the moment, the change will be propagated on the
machine when it becomes available. This means that deploying a policy to multiple machines is not a
momentary action. The same is true for revoking. These two processes may be durable and so the
management server tracks and displays personal statuses for each machine that it works with, as
well as the policy's cumulative status.
2.13.4.1

A policy on a machine or a group

In the diagrams below, each numbered scheme illustrates the result of the respectively numbered
action.
The container stands for a group; the colored circle stands for a machine with applied policy; the dark
colored circle stands for a machine with two applications of the same policy; the white circle stands
for a machine to which no policy is applied.
Policy on a machine
1. A policy can be applied to a machine.
2. A policy can be revoked from a machine.
Policy on a group
1. A policy can be applied to a group.
2. A policy can be revoked from a group.
3. A policy applied to a group cannot be revoked from a machine.
4. To revoke the policy from the machine, remove the machine from the group.
The same policy on a group and on a machine
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