Create a New PolicyCenter Configuration

When you first install PolicyCenter, it will have only two defined configurations:

• A configuration which allows you to configure settings for the PolicyCenter software and Windows server. This configuration name is based on the serial number of your PolicyCenter software, which typically begins with the numbers 901. This configuration may be renamed, but may not be deleted.
  
  
• The default configuration. This configuration cannot be deleted or renamed.
  

Additionally, when you add a unit to PolicyCenter, PolicyCenter creates a new unique configuration and assigns that unit to it. You may, however create an entirely new PolicyCenter configuration if you want to:

• Create a new parent configuration that manages key classes and settings for child configurations with assigned units.
  
  
• Create a new child configuration so you can edit inherited classes and settings without affecting the parent configuration.
  
  
• Create a new configuration for testing new classes and settings before you make the changes to configurations with assigned units.

To create another PolicyCenter configuration:

1. Click the configurations, manage, setup, options or info tab, then click the add button at the top of the browser window. The PolicyCenter configurations options will open.  show screen
   
   
2. Select the location where you want to add the new configuration with the Add a new configuration under drop-down list. You may create a new child configuration by placing the new configuration under one that already exists, or create a new top-level configuration by selecting the slash (/) symbol in the drop-down list. If you have many existing configurations, you may have to scroll to the top of the list to see the slash (/) symbol.
   
   
3. Enter a configuration name of up to 20 characters, including any combination of the following:
   a-z
A-Z
   the numbers 0-9
-(hyphen)
   _ (underscore)
   . (period)
   Spaces are not allowed in a configuration name.
   
   
4. Click add. Units can now be assigned to this new configuration.

Note: Child configurations with several levels of parent configurations cannot have a path name longer than 128 characters. Very long path names will be abbreviated in the browser interface to display the only the last few characters of the configuration path.

For example, the configuration /parent4/parent3/parent2/parent1/child_config will be abbreviated to ...ent3/parent2/parent1/child_config in the PolicyCenter browser interface.

See also:

Add units to PolicyCenter

Assign units to a new configuration