Managing Policies; Creating Policies - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-25-2008 Administration Manual

Managing Policies

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Novell ZENworks Linux Management Policies give you the ability to define and lock down
configuration settings of various applications on managed devices. ZENworks Linux Management
provides policies for a number of popular applications, plus powerful tools to create customized
policies for other applications. In addition to creating policies, as described in
Policies," on page 127, you can create groups and folders to assign policies to, edit existing policies,
and more.
The following sections contain additional information:
Section 17.1, "Creating Policies," on page 177
Section 17.2, "Creating Folders," on page 178
Section 17.3, "Creating Policy Groups," on page 179
Section 17.4, "Assigning Policies," on page 182
Section 17.5, "Removing Policy Assignments," on page 183
Section 17.6, "Adding Policies to Existing Groups," on page 184
Section 17.7, "Editing Policies," on page 184
Section 17.8, "Editing System Requirements," on page 194
Section 17.9, "Refreshing Policies," on page 196
Section 17.10, "Verifying Policy Enforcement," on page 196
Section 17.11, "Renaming, Copying, or Moving Policies," on page 197
Section 17.12, "Deleting Policies, Policy Groups, and Folders," on page 198
Section 17.13, "Unenforcing Policies," on page 199

17.1 Creating Policies

Step-by-step instructions to create policies are contained in
page 127.
ZENworks lets you create seven types of policies:
Epiphany policy: Configures the Epiphany Web browser. For step-by-step instructions to
create this policy, see
Evolution policy: Configures the Evolution
create this policy, see
Firefox policy: Configures the Firefox Web browser. For step-by-step instructions to create
this policy, see Section 16.3, "Firefox Policy," on page
Generic GNOME policy: Configures GConf applications. For step-by-step instructions to
create this policy, see
Novell Linux Desktop policy: Configures the Novell Linux Desktop settings. For step-by-step
instructions to create this policy, see
page 151.
Section 16.1, "Epiphany Policy," on page
e-mail client. For step-by-step instructions to
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Section 16.2, "Evolution Policy," on page
Section 16.4, "Generic GNOME Policy," on page
Section 16.5, "Novell Linux Desktop Policy," on
Chapter 16, "Creating
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