Defining Agent Policy Conflict Resolution - Novell ZENWORKS PATCH MANAGEMENT 6.4 SP2 User Manual

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Defining Agent Policy Conflict Resolution

When a group is assigned conflicting policies, those policies must be validated, and any
conflicting policies resolved. The policies are resolved in the following order:
1) Group Policies - The conflicting policy sets assigned to a group are resolved prior to
attempting to resolve the agent policies. The following rules apply:
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Url - The Url should be added in the http://servername format.
Port - The port on which your FastPath server operates.
Authenticated - Select this option if the FastPath server requires authentication.
Enables the User Name and Password fields.
User Name - If your FastPath server requires authentication, provide a valid user
name.
Password / Confirm Password - Enter the password associated with the defined
user name.
R : The FastPath server data is saved and the Add FastPath Server dialog
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closes.
R : The Edit FastPath Server window closes.
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Any directly assigned policies, with conflicting values, are resolved as defined in the
Agent Policy Conflict Resolution Rules on page 283.
If a group has inherit policies turned on, it will receive the resultant (after conflict
resolution) policies assigned to it's parent. Any policy values that are not directly
assigned to the group, but are inherited from the group's parent, are assigned to the
group.
: If inherit policies is turned off, only directly assigned policies are considered
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and this step is skipped.
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