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How an Endpoint Resolves Variables

Variables let you deploy the same policy to endpoints that have different configurations and different operating systems. The following process explains how a CA ControlMinder endpoint resolves variables in a policy after you have created and deployed the policy:

  1. When policyfetcher fetches the policy, CA ControlMinder checks that the variables in the policy are defined in the policy or in the CA ControlMinder database. One of the following occurs:
  2. Every heartbeat, policyfetcher checks if a variable value has changed in the CA ControlMinder database. One of the following occurs: