Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - POLICY MANAGEMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Management Manual page 14

Plural Policy: If multiple policies of the same policy type are assigned to a device or a user
and the policy type is a Plural type, then all policies meeting the associated system requirement
are applied.
The Browser Bookmarks policy, Local File Rights policy, Windows Group policy, and Printer
policy are plural policies. However, the security settings in the Windows Group policy are not
plural.
Policies can be disabled.
When you create a policy in ZENworks Configuration Management, the policy is enabled by
default. You can disable it if you do not want to apply it on a user or a device.
ZENworks Configuration Management allows you to resolve policy conflicts.
The set of effective policies is a subset of the set of assigned policies. The set of effective
policies for a device or user is calculated by applying precedence rules, multiplicity rules, and
system requirements filters on the set of assigned policies. Effective policies are calculated
separately for devices and users. The Policy Conflict Resolution setting determines how user
and device policies interact for a specific user and device combination.
Effective policies are calculated separately for devices and users. When a user logs in to a
device, policies associated to both the user and the device must be applied. Policy Conflict
Resolution settings are used only when policies of the same type are associated to both the
device and the user. This setting determines the precedence order among the policies associated
to the user and those associated to the device. The Policy Conflict Resolution settings are
applied after the effective policies are calculated.
Policy Conflict Resolution settings are defined when associating a policy to a device. The
settings cannot be defined for associations to users. For each policy type, the Policy Conflict
Resolution setting defined in the closest effective policy of that type is applied for all policies
of that type.
A Policy Resolution Conflict setting can have one of the following values:
User Last: Applies the policies associated to the device first, then the policies associated
to the user. This is the default value.
Device Last: Applies the policies associated to the user first, then the policies associated
to the device.
User Only: Applies only the policies associated to the user and ignores the policies
associated to the device.
Device Only: Applies only the policies associated to the device and ignore the policies
associated to the user.
NOTE: The Policy Conflict Resolution setting is taken from the device-associated policy with
the highest precedence.
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