Viewing Policies; Importing/Exporting Policies - ESET REMOTE ADMINISTRATOR 4 Installation Manual

selected (for more information, see chapter
Icons with downward arrows – these policies are replicated – the option
apply these policies on the given server and on its child servers.
2) Policies with grey icons originate from other servers.
Icons with upward arrows – These policies are replicated from child servers. They can only be viewed or deleted with
the option Delete Policy
Tree. Therefore they can reappear after replication. If you do not want to display policies from lower servers, use the
option Hide foreign servers policies not used in policy
Icons with downward arrows – These policies are replicated from upper servers. They can be used as Parent policies for
other policies, assigned to clients
policy – it will reappear after replication from the upper server (unless the attribute
disabled on the upper server).
NOTE: To move and assign policies within the structure, you can either select the parent policy, or drag-and-drop it with
the mouse.
Existing policy rules can be imported/exported from/to an .xml file by clicking on the
conflicts during the import (existing and imported policy with the same name) are solved by assigning a random string
after the name of an imported policy.

5.3.5 Viewing policies

Policies in the Policy Tree structure can be viewed directly in the Configuration Editor by clicking
.
View Merged – Displays the merged policy created as a result of inheritance (the process of inheriting applies settings
from the parent policy). This option is displayed by default, because the current policy is already a merged policy.
View – Displays the original policy before it was merged with a parent policy.
On lower servers, the following options are available for policies inherited from upper servers:
View Merged – Same as above
View Override Part – This button applies for policies with the attribute Override any child policy. This option only shows
the forced part of the policy – i.e. the one which has priority over other settings in child policies.
View Non-force part – Has opposite effect of View Override Part – only displays active items, to which Override... is not
applied.

5.3.6 Importing/Exporting policies

The Policy Manager allows you to import/export policies and policy rules. Existing policies can be imported/exported
from/to an .xml file by clicking the
from groups by clicking the
Import.../Export... button and, in addition, they can be created using the
Name conflicts (the existing and the imported policy names are identical) are solved during the import by adding a
random string to the name of the imported policy. If a conflict cannot be resolved in this fashion (usually due to the new
name being too long) the import finishes with the warning Unresolved policy name conflict. The solution is to delete or
rename the conflicting policies or policy rules.
How to create policies
Branch. This option will not delete the policy itself, it will only remove the policy from the Policy
(Add Clients) or removed
Import Policies.../Export Policies...
Import from Groups...
).
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tree.
(Delete Policy). Please note that deleting will only delete the
button. The policies can furthermore be imported
button. Policy rules can be imported/exported by clicking the
Down replicable policy
Down replicable policy
Import.../Export...
View...
Policy Rules Wizard.
is enabled. You can
has been
button. Name
or View Merged...
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