Working With Agent Policy Sets - Novell ZENWORKS PATCH MANAGEMENT 6.4 SP2 User Manual

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Working With Agent Policy Sets

Agent Policies are the key element in defining agent behavior. Agent Policies consist of the
rules for communicating with the Patch Management Server and define settings such as
communication interval, deployment notification options, reboot notification options, logging
levels, discovery mode, and hours of operation.
Agent policies are assigned to agents by assigning Agent Policy Sets to Device Groups. The
policy values are then assigned to the agents based upon their group membership. When
agents or groups are assigned conflicting policies, the conflict resolution rules found under
Defining Agent Policy Conflict Resolution on page 282 are applied. Any agent that does not
have all of the policies defined by it's various group memberships will have any missing
policy values defined by the Global System Policy.
The Agent Policies Sets page allows you to define the behavior of the Update Agent. Click
Options in the tool bar and then click the Policies tab.
Figure 9-14: Agent Policy Set Tab
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