Product guide

Configuring Agent Policies
Agent policy general settings are specified on the Policy Catalog pages of the ePolicy Orchestrator
console, including policies for events, logging, repositories, updates, and proxy.
About agent policy settings
Proxy settings for the agent
Retrieving system properties
Scheduling a client task for a group
Creating a new scheduled client task
Configuring selected systems for updating
About agent policy settings
Agent policy settings determine the performance and behavior of an agent in your environment.
The interface provides 6 configuration pages for setting policy options:
• General, where the following policies are set:
• Policy enforcement interval
• Use of system tray icon
• Agent and SuperAgentwake-up call support in Windows environments
• The repository path where the agent goes for product and update packages
• Whether to accept connections only from the ePO server
• Creation of SuperAgents
• Rebooting options
• Agent-server communication
• Sending full or minimal system properties and product properties
• Events, where priority event forwarding is set. (See Priority event forwarding ).
• Logging, where the following policies are set:
• Enabling/disabling of logging
• Level of logging detail
• Setting remote access to logging
• Repositories, where repository selection variables are set. (See Selecting a repository ).
• Updates, where the following policies are set:
• Identifying log file information
• Specifying post-updating executables
• Downgrading DAT files
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