USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION


Viewing policy relationships
The policy viewer is a convenient tool you can use to view each policy, the settings associated with each policy, and how they relate to each other. The policy viewer is also versatile because of the number of ways in which you can view policy documents. For example, you can view the settings for each policy, the settings by functional area, or the settings assigned to a specific users. You can also view effective policies on different levels in the policy hierarchy, which helps you to understand the impact of changing a policy setting. You can view policy documents using one of two views, By Hierarchy and By Settings.

How to use the policy viewer

The policy viewer has three panes. Depending on your selection in the top left pane, the results in the right top pane differ. The bottom pane always shows either an actual policy settings document or an effective policy settings document, based on your selections in the top two panes. You can edit a policy settings document in the policy viewer. You cannot edit an effective policy because the settings are derived settings.

Example of using the By Settings view

The administrator at the Acme company wants to use the policy viewer to:

To view this information the administrator performs these tasks: Example of using the By Hierarchy view

The administrator at the Acme company wants to use the policy viewer to:

To view this information the administrator performs these tasks:

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