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Sealed and Unsealed Policies

Policies can be either sealed or unsealed. An unsealed policy can be modified when applied to an asset or a group; the last sealed version is applied. A sealed policy is read-only. If the policy is unsealed, you can change the values defined in the one of the default policy groups by drilling down to the required value and clicking the Properties toolbar button or right-clicking and using a context menu option. A change to the default value is applied wherever a specific policy has not been applied after the policy has been resealed.

Note: When a policy is sealed, only the parameters that are changed will be visible in the DSM Explorer tree.

Be aware of the following ownership conditions when modifying policies:

• If a policy is unsealed by one user, other users viewing the policies will still see the policy as sealed.
• If you try to unseal a policy that another user has already unsealed, you get the following message:

  "This policy is already being edited by username. Please contact this user to arrange for the policy to be re-sealed. If this is not possible, and you have to modify the policy, any changes can be rejected, and you can un-seal the policy. Do you want to discard the changes that have been made by the other user?"

  If you click Yes, the other user's changes are discarded and you get ownership of the unsealed policy.

  Important! Do this only as a last resort.

• If you have a policy unsealed and another user forcibly unseals the policy, you get the following message:

  "The policy policyname has been forcibly unsealed by username. Any changes you have made since unsealing the policy have been lost. The policies will now be reloaded."

  The policies are then reloaded to show their updated states.

Note: You can discard any changes you have made during an editing session by right-clicking the policy and clicking Discard Changes in the context menu that appears.

More information:

Seal a Policy

Unseal a Policy