Viewing policy groups
You can open a policy group to view the status of its policies and the list of devices that belong to it.
To view a policy group:
- Log in to the Secure Endpoint Console as a user with View permissions for Policies.
- On the navigation bar, click
Policies > Policy Groups.
- On the Policy Groups sidebar, click the policy group that you want to view. The policy group opens in the work area to show the following information:
- Name and description of the policy group
- <#> devices: the number of devices in the policy group
Click the link to view the policy group's devices.
- Agent Version: the version of the Secure Endpoint Agent assigned to the policy group
Click the linked version number to open the Agent management page.
The agent version is always the current version unless automatic agent updates are disabled for your account in Agent Management. If your user role is granted Manage permissions for Version Control, you can click the agent version to go to the Agent Management page.
- Offline Freeze Rule: indicates whether an activated Offline Freeze rule is assigned to the policy group.
Possible values are None, Active, and Inactive.
- Policies area: shows the following information about each policy:
- The device platforms that are unsupported by the policy
Hover over any platform icon to view more information.
- Current activation status (On/Off) of the policy
To view a description of each policy, click
. To hide them again, click
.
The Policies section may include policies that are not supported by the Absolute product licenses associated with your account. These policies can't be activated. See License upgrade required.
- The device platforms that are unsupported by the policy
- License Status area: shows the following information about the license validation status of each policy:
- Last validated <date and time>: shows the date and time when the licenses assigned to the policy group's devices were last validated against an activated policy. For example, moving a device between policy groups automatically triggers license validation of the target policy group.
To rerun validation for all activated policies, click
. The date value refreshes to the current date and time.
- Each policy shows one of the following license validation indicators:
Indicator
Details
All devices passed license validation
The policy is activated on all supported devices.
Some devices require a license upgrade
Some devices passed license validation, and some did not
The policy is activated on all validated and supported devices.
- To view information about the product (or products) required to activate the policy, click the
(Help and Support) icon. A tooltip shows each product's respective counts of available licenses.
- To view the list of licensed devices that need a license upgrade before the policy can be activated on them, click Show devices. The policy's ineligible devices report opens to show the devices that lack the required license, or licenses. From this report, you can select one or more devices and click Change License to assign a license to the devices or Change Policy Group to move the devices to another policy group.
Since policy activation is not supported on unlicensed devices, they are excluded from the license validation process. As a result, unlicensed devices are not listed on the policy's ineligible devices report.
When unlicensed devices exist in your account, an orange banner showing the count of unlicensed devices is presented at the top of each console page. To open a report showing all unlicensed devices, click View devices in the banner.
If required, you can contact Absolute Sales to purchase more licenses.
Indicates that the policy is not supported by any of the product licenses currently associated with your account
To activate this policy, you will need to contact Absolute Sales to upgrade your product licenses.
- To view information about the product (or products) required to activate the policy, click the
- Last validated <date and time>: shows the date and time when the licenses assigned to the policy group's devices were last validated against an activated policy. For example, moving a device between policy groups automatically triggers license validation of the target policy group.
- If you have Manage permissions for Policies, you can:
- Click a policy's activation slider (if available) to activate or deactivate the policy.
- Update the policy group's properties.
- Click
to add devices to the policy group.
- Click
to delete a custom policy group. This option is not available in the Global Policy Group.
- To view the current policy configurations for an Endpoint Data Discovery policy:
- Next to Endpoint Data Discovery, click Configure. The Configure EDD dialog opens showing the policy rules and scan schedule that are applied.
- Click Cancel to close the dialog.
- To view the current policy configurations for an Application Resilience policy:
- Next to Application Resilience, click Configure. The Configure Application Resilience dialog opens showing the current policy configuration for each resilient application A third party application that is actively monitored by the Secure Endpoint Agent. This feature is available only when the Application Resilience policy is activated on a Windows device. Depending on the configuration of this policy, the agent may be able to repair the application if it's non-compliant, or reinstall it if it's missing. under Configuration Summary.
- Click Cancel to close the dialog.
- To view the current policy configurations for a Device Compliance policy:
- Next to Device Compliance, click Configure. The Device Compliance dialog opens showing the compliance conditions that are applied.
- Click Cancel to close the dialog.