Custom attributes for policies

You can set custom attributes for servers by using software policies. The custom attributes include miscellaneous parameters and named data values. You can write scripts that use these parameters and data values when you perform a variety of functions, including network and server configuration, notifications, and CRON script configurations.

You can set custom attributes for software policies or for servers or device groups directly. When you set a custom attributes for a software policy, the custom attributes and values affect all the servers attached to the policy. When a policy containing sub-policies is attached to a server, all the custom attributes and values from the parent policy and the included sub-policies are added to the server.

Setting custom attributes to servers or device groups directly allows you to override the attributes and values set by a software policy. For example, if a certain port is required for installing an application, you can set it as a custom attribute in a software policy. When you attach the policy to multiple servers, the attribute is added to those servers. If required, you can change the port settings of a particular server attached to the software policy, without changing the port settings of all the other servers attached to the software policy. You can achieve this by setting the custom attribute on the server directly. As a result, the custom attribute value set on the server directly supersedes the value set by the policy for that server.

See Add custom attributes to a software policy for more information.