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Migration to an Advanced Policy Management Environment

When you migrate from a Policy Model (PMD) environment to an advanced policy management environment, you change the way you deploy rules to your endpoints:

• In a PMD environment, regular rules you define in a central database (PMDB) are automatically propagated to databases in a configured hierarchy.
• In an advanced policy management environment, you assign policies (groups of rules) to one or more host or host groups. You can also undeploy (remove) policies and view deployment status and deployment deviation.

When you migrate from a PMD environment to an advanced policy management environment, you:

• Install additional components
• Create policies from the rules in the PMDB
• Upgrade the endpoints
• Flatten your PMD structure

Advanced policy management does not support hierarchical host groups. If your PMD architecture contains hierarchical PMDBs, you must flatten your PMD hierarchy.

Note: Advanced policy management does not support policies with password management commands. You must use a password PMD to synchronize passwords between endpoints and to distribute password management rules. You cannot migrate a password PMD to the advanced policy management environment. Instead, you apply a filter file to the password PMD so that it only sends password rules to its subscribers.