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Apply Policy and Templates to Servers and Verify Settings

After you create the template, you can apply the policy, with the template directly to the servers or the server groups across the enterprise.

Follow these steps:

1. Select the policy in the Available Policies table or select a template from the Template List.

   The Summary page for the policy or template appears.

2. Select the Managed Machines tab.

   The list of managed machines appears.

3. Click Action and select Apply.

   Tabs appear for selecting systems on which to apply the policy.

   Update machines running this policy/template

   Lets you apply the policy to systems that are already running the policy or template.

   Apply to machines not running this policy/templates

   Lets you apply policy or a template to systems.

4. (Options for policies) Do one of the following options from the 'Update machines running this policy' tab:
   • Select 'Update all machines using this policy' to deploy the policy on all machines currently running it. This option is useful if you have made configuration policy changes that you want to apply globally.
   • Select 'Update selected groups of machines' to update only machines that meet any of the following criteria:
     • Machines running an out-of-date version of the policy
     • Machines where policy exceptions have been applied
     • Machines running current version of the policy
     • Machines with configuration errors for this policy

     Policy exceptions occur when a user applies a point configuration change to an agent that is not represented in the applied policy.

   • Select 'Advanced (manually select machines)' to add the machines manually in the Select Machines pane to which you want to reapply the policy.
5. (Options for templates) Select one of the following options from the 'Update machines running this template' tab:

   Under Existing Machines, select one of the following options:

   • Update all machines with this template applied.
   • Update only those machines that do not have the latest changes of this template applied.
   • Update only those machines where the template has not been successfully applied.
   • Advanced (manually select machines)
   • Remove this template from machines.
6. (Optional) Select systems from the 'Apply to Machines not running this policy/template' tab for applying the policy or template.
7. Click Apply Policy or Apply Template.

   The application is initiated.

8. Verify if the servers behave as expected. If necessary, you can update and apply the updated policies and templates.