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eScan Version 11 and above Online Help
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Policy Criteria Templates
This option will allow the administrator to specify policy criteria and deploy it to endpoints automatically if it complies with the pre – defined criteria in the management console. The Administrator will select Policy Criteria based on which the policies will be deployed. It allow you to define the following –
- Criteria Name: Define the criteria Name.
- Description: Give a brief description about the policy here, so that it is easier to understand the policy criteria details on a future date.
Conditions of criteria This option will allow the administrator to select the conditions for the policy criteria; the policy template will be applied only when the selected criteria is/are met.
- Add: This option will allow the administrator to add conditions for the policy criteria; the policy templates will be applied to the selected group or managed endpoint only if the criteria are matched. For more details Click here
- Edit: This will allow the administrator to make changes to the existing policy criteria . The administrator can make changes like adding or removing of an IP address or can even make changes to the criteria itself.
- Delete: This will allow the administrator to delete an already defined policy criterion.
Creating Policy Criteria
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- Add AND Condition – In case if you have selected multiple criteria, then the policy will be applied only if all the defined criteria are met.
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- Add OR Condition - In case if you have selected multiple criteria, then the policy will be applied only if any of the defined criteria is met.
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- Specify criteria window will open; this Window allows you to Select Criteria Type and Conditions for the defined Criteria.
- It also allows you to Add, Edit or Delete IP Address, IP Range or Subnet Address to which the Criteria will be applicable.
Selecting Criteria Type - It allows you to define the following -
- Computer IP Address: If you select this type of criteria, then the policy criteria will be around the IP addresses of the client. The AND conditions would be as follows:
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- If the client computer has one of the IP listed below.
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- If all the IP address of the client computers are listed below.
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- If the client computer does not have any of the addresses listed below.
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- Management Server connections: This particular type of criteria will have conditions around the management server connection.
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- If the client computer can connect to the management server
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- If the client computer cannot connect to the management server
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- If you select the Computer IP Address type condition, choose criteria from the listed criteria and then click Add.
- A new window will be displayed; select IP address / IP address range or subnet address and enter the IP address details or the Subnet details and click OK.
- The defined IP address / IP address range or subnet address will be displayed on the specify criteria window, Click Ok.
- On clicking OK you will be taken back to the Policy criteria window and here it will display the details of the policy criteria, the name, description and the policy criteria that you have selected.
- You can edit the criteria by selecting the policy criteria and also make any other changes, once all changes are completed, click Save.
- You have successfully defined policy criteria.
- Go to managed computers, click on policy criteria, it will display the list of already created policy criteria. The list will display the name of the policy criteria, the date when the policy criteria was created and modified etc. For more details on creating a policy criteria Click here
- Select desired criteria, Properties, Delete criteria and Assign to will be enabled.
- Click on Assign tab and from the drop down select Groups.
- On selecting groups a window “Assign Criteria to Group” will be opened and a list of policy templates will be displayed.
- Select a template as per your requirement and click OK; you will be forwarded to a list of managed groups.
- Select a managed group from the listed groups or you can also create a new group and Click OK to assign the policy criteria to that particular group.
- Go to managed computers, click on policy criteria, it will display the list of already created policy criteria. The list will display the name of the policy criteria, the date when the policy criteria was created and modified etc. For more details on creating a policy criteria Click here
- Select policy criteria and the tabs Properties, delete criteria and Assign to will be enabled.
- Click on Assign tab and from the drop down select Computers.
- On selecting computers a window “Assign Criteria to computers” will be opened and a list of policy templates will be displayed.
- Select a particular template as per your requirement and click OK; you will be forwarded to a list of managed computers.
- Select a managed computer from the list and Click OK to assign the policy criteria to this managed computer.
- Go to managed computers, click on policy criteria, it will display the list of already created policy criteria. The list will display the name of the policy criteria, the date when the policy criteria was created and modified etc. For more details on creating a policy criteria Click here
- Select policy criteria and the tabs Properties, delete criteria and Assign to will be enabled.
- Click on delete and the policy criteria will be deleted.
