How ePO 4.5 settings affect sorting

Posted: February, 04 2010

You can choose three server settings that determine whether and when systems are sorted.
Also, you can choose whether any system can be sorted by enabling or disabling System Tree sorting on selected systems in the System Tree.

Server settings
The server has three settings:
• Disable System Tree sorting — If criteria-based sorting does not meet your security
management needs and you want to use other System Tree features (like Active Directory
synchronization) to organize your systems, select this setting to prevent other ePO users
from mistakenly configuring sorting criteria on groups and moving systems to undesirable
locations.
• Sort systems on each agent-server communication — Systems are sorted again at
each agent-server communication. When you change sorting criteria on groups, systems
move to the new group at their next agent-server communication.
• Sort systems once — Systems are sorted at the next agent-server communication and
marked to never be sorted again at agent-server communication as long as this setting is
selected. However, selecting such a system and clicking Sort Now does sort the system.

System settings
You can disable or enable System Tree sorting on any system. If System Tree sorting is disabled
on a system, that system will not be sorted regardless of how the sorting action is taken. If
System Tree sorting is enabled on a system, that system is sorted always for the manual Sort
Now action, and may be sorted at agent-server communication, depending on the System Tree
sorting server settings.

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