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policydeploy Utility—Manage Enterprise Policy Deployment

The policydeploy utility manages multiple-rule policies (advanced policy management). It lets you store policy versions on DMS nodes, assign policies to hosts and host groups and unassign these policies, directly deploy or undeploy a stored policy, or upgrade deployed policies to the latest version.

The utility handles several tasks and has the following functions:

Task

Function

Assign or unassign a policy

policydeploy -assign

Delete a policy

policydeploy -delete

Deploy a policy

policydeploy -deploy

Undeploy a policy

policydeploy -undeploy

Re-execute a deployment task

policydeploy -fix

View deployment scripts

policydeploy -getrules

Join or remove a host to a host group

policydeploy -join

Migrate a PMD to advanced policy management

policydeploy -migrate

Reset policy deployment

policydeploy -reset

Restore all policies

policydeploy -restore

Store a policy

policydeploy -store

Upgrade a policy version

policydeploy -upgrade

Downgrade a policy version

policydeploy -downgrade