F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 9.0 Administrator's Manual page 34

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Clear value
The functionality of the
the field will either display the inherited value (grey text), or no value at all. The
available only if there is a value defined for the currently defined domain or host.
Force value
The Force value
domain setting to also be active in all subdomains and hosts. In practice, this operation clears the corresponding
setting in all subdomains and hosts below the current domain, enabling the inheritance of the current value
to all subdomains and hosts. Use this menu entry cautiously: all values defined in the subdomain or hosts
under the selected domain are discarded, and cannot be restored.
Show domain values
The Show domain values
of all policy domains and hosts below the selected policy domain, together with the value of the selected field.
Click any domain or host name to quickly select the domain or host. It is possible to open more than one
Domain value
Viewing the status
You can view the settings and statistics of a policy domain in the main application area.
To view the status:
1. Open the
2. Select the product.
Policy Manager Console will render a product view for the selected product, where you can view the more
important local settings and statistics.
Note: Values cannot be edited, but the
For the policy domains, the
domain, and list of disconnected hosts.
3. Click any disconnected host to quickly change the policy domain selection into that host.
This way it is possible to investigate if the disconnected host managed to send some alerts or useful
statistics before the disconnection. This information may help to investigate why the host was disconnected.
If the reason is clear, for example, if the host's F-Secure software has been uninstalled, the host can be
deleted normally.
4. After investigating one disconnected host, you can go back to the previously selected domain level by
clicking the
The Domain status
hosts: selecting all disconnected hosts and deleting all disconnected hosts. Both operations can be
accessed through the
Caution: Deleting all disconnected hosts is potentially a dangerous operation, as it is possible that
some existing hosts are for some natural reason temporarily disconnected longer than the allotted
threshold days. Always check the disconnection threshold value from
hosts. If a still existing host is deleted accidently, all host specific alerts, report, status and policy
settings will be lost. However, the host will send an autoregistration message once it discovers that
it has been removed from Policy Manager. The host can be re-imported to the domain tree, but from
the Policy Manager point of view it's like any other newly added host.
Clear value menu item is the same as in the
menu item is available only when a policy domain is selected. You can enforce the current
menu item is available only when a policy domain is selected. You can view a list
dialog simultaneously.
Status tab.
Status tab will show the domain level status overview: number of hosts in the
button in the toolbar.
view also offers two shortcut operations for handling a greater number of disconnected
Disconnected host
MIB tree. After clearing the current value,
MIB help texts can be displayed by clicking a field or its label.
tree root node context menu.
Clear value menu item is
Preferences before deleting