Health Policies

Health policies execute health checks on specified target groups on a defined schedule. Once a health policy has run, its will be reported to the home dashboard in real-time.

Health policies are created with the following components:

• Health Checks - Defines the how of a health policy, e.g. checking if BitLocker drive encryption is enabled and executing remediation if necessary.

• Schedules - Defines the when of a health policy, e.g. a policy will execute every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 AM.

• Groups - Defines the where of a health policy, e.g. where does this policy get executed.

These components will either need to be created, or you can use the available built-in options.

Create a Health Policy

Once you have your desired health checks, schedules, and groups, you can add them to your health policy.

1. Select Health Policies from the side navigation.

General Settings

1. Enter a Name and an optional Description.

2. Toggle ON Policy Enabled.

3. Select a date/time for Policy Start Time.

   • This will determine when a policy will begin executing on its defined schedule. If your schedule is set to run on Tuesdays at 10 AM and you create your policy with a start date of Wednesday, your policy will run the following Tuesday.

4. (Optional) Select a date/time for Policy End Time.

5. Toggle ON or OFF Use Server Time Zone.

   • Sever time zone - Clients on different time zones will receive health checks at the same time. E.g. Seattle clients will receive health checks at 6 AM PST, while New York clients will receive at 9 AM PST.

   • Local time zone - Clients on different time zones will receive health checks at different times based on client time zones. E.g. Seattle clients will receive health checks at 6 AM PST, while New York clients will receive at 6 AM EST.

6. Toggle ON or OFF Encrypt Policy.

   • Encrypt policy will encrypt the health policy .content file with a Policy object and secure hash.

Execution Schedules

1. Toggle ON or OFF Run Policy as Instant.

   • If run as instant, it will remove the schedule and report results only when manually executed (see Save and Run and More Options below on how to run manually).

2. Click Browse next to Schedules to select one or more schedules. You also have the ability to create a custom schedule if you have not already done so from Platform Features > Schedules.

Target Groups and Devices

1. Toggle ON or OFF Use All Adaptiva Clients.

2. Select Browse next to Target Groups if Use All Adaptiva Clients is toggle OFF. You can select either the built-in groups or create your own if you haven't done so already.

Health Checks

1. Click + Add from Policy to select the health checks from a pre-existing health policy or + Add Health Checks to add individual health checks.

2. If a health check is added that has a remediation workflow, you can toggle ON Auto Remediation from the table.

   • When enabled, this will ensure that if a remediation is necessary, it will automatically apply when a Health Policy is run.

For more information regarding built-in health checks, please see our Appendices page for more information.

Advanced Options

These options define how a health policy will be executed for server and client devices with specific workflows. These should be left as default unless otherwise directed by our Support Team.

Save and Run

Once you click Save and Run it will immediately run your health check and open a dashboard for your health check metrics.

More Options

On the Health Policies page, you have additional actions you can select from the ellipses (...) next to any Health Policy.