Managing Policy Groups; Creating Policy Groups - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - POLICY MANAGEMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Management Manual

Managing Policy Groups

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A policy group lets you group policies to ease administration and to provide easier assigning and
scheduling of the policies in the policy group.
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You can use ZENworks
This section explains how to perform this task using the ZENworks Control Center. If you prefer the
zman command line utility, see
Management Command Line Utilities
Section 4.1, "Creating Policy Groups," on page 61
Section 4.2, "Renaming or Moving Policy Groups," on page 62
Section 4.3, "Deleting a Policy Group," on page 62
Section 4.4, "Assigning a Policy Group to Devices," on page 63
Section 4.5, "Assigning a Policy Group to Users," on page 63
Section 4.6, "Adding a Policy to a Group," on page 64

4.1 Creating Policy Groups

1 In ZENworks Control Center, click the Policies tab.
2 Click New > Policy Group.
3 Fill in the fields:
Group Name: Provide a name for the policy group. The name must be different than the name
of any other item (policy, group, folder, and so forth) that resides in the same folder. The name
you provide displays in ZENworks Control Center.
For more information, see
10 Configuration Management System Administration Reference
Folder: Type the name or browse to and select the ZENworks Control Center folder where you
want the policy to reside. The default is
organize your policies.
If you want to create the group in another folder, browse to and select the folder. By default, the
group is created in the current folder.
Description: Provide a short description of the policy group's contents. This description
displays in ZENworks Control Center.
4 Click Next to display the Add Group Members page, then specify policies to be members for
the group.
You can add any number of policies to the group. You cannot add other policy groups to the
group.
4a Click Add to display the Select Members dialog box.
Because you are adding policies to the group, the Select Members dialog box opens with
the folder displayed.
Policies
Control Center or the zman command line utility to create policy groups.
"Policy Commands" in the
Reference.
"Naming Conventions in ZENworks Control
/policies
ZENworks 10 Configuration
Center" in
, but you can create additional folders to
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