Policies

A policy is a tool used to automate repetitive or time-consuming maintenance and security tasks.

As a large amount of asset information is collected, it is likely that certain threshold values are exceeded or events occur. In such cases, policies help the administrator take action on critical data or on potential problems, such as low free disk space, installation of non-approved software applications, or hardware components being added or removed without authorization.

Policies can be assigned to users, computers, and groups.

The Policies folder provides these built-in policies:

Query Based
Event Based
Note: Available categories and options may vary depending on the products and components installed.
Software Based
Note: Available categories and options may vary depending on the products and components installed.

All the policies that are violated by the asset are displayed in the Home Page of the respective asset.

Wake-On-LAN Policy Group

The Wake-On-LAN policy group lets you set policies for remotely and automatically powering up computers in your enterprise. You can modify policy parameter values by double-clicking a policy to display the Setting Properties dialog.

WOL: Broadcast

Indicates the type of wake-on-LAN (WOL) datagram used to wake physical computers. Valid values are Unicast, Broadcast, and Broadcast + Unicast.

Default: Broadcast + Unicast

WOL: Enable guest nets

Indicates whether WOL datagrams can be sent to guest networks in addition to the original network where the computer is registered.

Default: False

Guest net address 1 - Guest net address 5

If Enable guest nets is set to True, specifies the network address of each guest net. Up to five guest nets can be specified.

Guest net mask 1 - Guest net mask 5

If Enable guest nets is set to True, specifies the subnet mask of each guest net. Up to five net masks can be specified.

WOL: Port

Specifies the UDP port to which WOL datagrams are to be sent.

More information:

Query Based

Event Based