Policy is made up of a number of policy items. The following is an example of a some simple Local policy consisting of many Scramble Items:
Scramble is the ForestSafe action which sets an account password to a value known only to the system.
Local Policy is applied in the background. It is applied only to ForestSafe Targets that are not in state OKAY or NEUTRAL.
There are many occasions when a target status becomes not status OKAY:
A computers first joins a domain
A workgroup computer is first discovered.
Automatically following the expiry of a Grant Access request
Automatically triggered by the Policy Scheduler
Manually requested by an End User with Apply Policy page.
A policy item consists of the following fields:
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Attribute |
Description |
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Platform |
The type of System, e.g. Windows, UNIX, CICO IOS |
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Hostname |
The hostname of the computer |
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Domain |
Windows Domain: The computer domain Windows Workgroup: WORKGROUP Non Windows: An LDAP domain if present |
|
MemberOf |
A Group that the computer account belongs to.. |
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IP Address |
The computer IP Address when the record was last updated. |
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Action |
The ForestSafe policy action |
|
Account Name |
The account that is affected by this policy item |
