Managing policies in Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console

A policy is a collection of application settings that are specified for an administration group. You can use policies to apply identical Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes settings to all client computers within an administration group. A policy does not define all application settings.

Multiple policies with different values of the settings can be configured for a single application. However, there can be only one active policy for an application within an administration group at a time. When you create a new policy, all other policies within an administration group become inactive. You can change the policy status later.

Policies have a hierarchy, similarly to administration groups. By default, a child policy inherits the settings from the parent policy. A child policy is a policy of a nested hierarchy level, that is, a policy for nested administration groups and secondary Administration Servers. You can enable inheritance of the settings from the parent policy.

You can locally modify the values of the settings specified by the policy for individual computers within the administration group, if modification of these settings is not prohibited by the policy.

Each policy setting has a "lock" attribute that indicates whether child policy settings and local application settings can be modified. The "lock" status of a setting within a policy determines whether or not an application setting on a client computer can be edited:

• When a setting is "locked" (), you cannot edit the setting. The setting value specified by the policy is used for all client computers within the administration group.
• When a setting is "unlocked" (), you can edit the setting. A locally configured setting is applied to all client computers within the administration group. The policy-configured setting is not applied.

The "lock" attribute applies for a child policy only if inheritance of the parent policy settings is enabled for the child policy.

After the policy is applied for the first time, the application settings change in accordance with the policy settings.

You can perform the following operations with a policy:

• Create a policy.
• Edit policy settings.

  If the user account which is used to access the Administration Server does not have permissions to edit the settings of certain functional scopes, the settings of these functional scopes are not available for editing.

• Delete a policy.
• Change policy status.
• Compare policy versions in the Revision history section of the policy properties window.

You can also create policy profiles. A policy profile may contain settings that differ from the "base" policy settings and apply to client computers when the configured conditions (activation rules) are met. Using policy profiles allows you to flexibly configure operation settings for different computers. You can create and configure profiles in the Policy profiles section of the policy properties.

For general information on working with policies and policy profiles, refer to Kaspersky Security Center documentation.