Deactivating policies

This topic applies to version 1 of the Policy Groups feature.

To stop collecting the information detected by a policy you need to deactivate it. A green Active icon, such as , indicates an activated policy.

When you deactivate a policy its associated agent component is not removed from the policy group's devices. The component is only removed when you submit an Unenroll Device request to remove the Secure Endpoint Agent from a device.

To deactivate a policy:

  1. Log in to the Secure Endpoint Console as a user with the Manage permission for Policies and Licenses.

  2. On the navigation bar, click Policies > Policy Groups.
  3. On the Policy Groups sidebar, click the policy group that contains the policy you want to deactivate. The policy group's Devices page opens in the work area.
  4. Click Settings. The Settings page for the policy group opens showing the activation status of its policies.

  5. Find the policy that you want to deactivate and click its activation slider to set it to Off.

    You can't deactivate a Hardware policy.

  6. [Optional] To stop collecting application usage data without deactivating the Installed Applications policy, clear the Include Usage data (only visible in Insights) checkbox.

    This step only applies if Absolute Insights is enabled for your account.

  7. On the Deactivate Policy confirmation message click Deactivate.

  8. Click Close to close the confirmation message.

The policy is deactivated. No further information related to this policy will be collected from the devices associated with this policy group.

To deactivate an Application Resilience policy:

  1. Log in to the Secure Endpoint Console as a user with Manage permissions for Policies and Licenses.
  2. On the navigation bar, click Policies > Policy Groups.
  3. On the Policy Groups sidebar, click the policy group that contains the Application Resilience policy you want to deactivate. The policy group's Devices page opens in the work area.
  4. Click Settings. The Settings page for the policy group opens showing the activation status of its policies.
  5. Next to Application Resilience, click Configure to show the Configure Application Resilience dialog.

  6. Do one of the following:

    • To deactivate individual application policies:

      1. Find each application policy you want to deactivate and click its Activation slider to set it to Off.
      2. Click Save and Apply.

      The selected application policies are deactivated and App resilience policy deactivated events are logged. No further information about the applications will be collected from the devices associated with this policy group.

    • To deactivate the entire Application Resilience policy, set all Activation sliders to Off and click Save and Apply.

      The policy is deactivated and App resilience policy deactivated events are logged. No further Application Resilience information will be collected from the devices associated with this policy group.