====== Overview ======
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===== Stage automatically & Enforce business compliance =====
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As administrator responsible for managing specialized devices, you are looking to have **pre-defined management scenarios** which can be executed automatically - without you being behind your management console.

**Automatically configure** without intervention, Make sure your devices **comply with your expectations** -  Chippc’s Xcalibur W enables you to meet these challenges by providing a unique **Automatic Policy** system for your specialized devices.


===== How it works =====
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Xcalibur W features a powerful and flexible **policy engine** - based on **IF THIS THEN THAT** concept.

You decide in advance when and where Xcalibur W will take specific actions to reach your goal and then create the statement: If X happens, then I will do Y. **“IF THIS”** becomes the event that spurs the **“THEN THAT”** action.

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Xcalibur W enables to create policies by combining the events and actions below.
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|  **Available Events**  |
|  Device is enrolled  |
|  Device starts  |
|  Device joins group  |
|  Device matches following inventory criteria  |

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|  **Available Actions**  |
|  Move device to group  |
|  Play task  |
|  Apply monitoring rule  |

===== Use Cases =====
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Below are some scenarios provided as example purpose.

{{:tip.png |}}**Auto-configure your devices based on their properties**\\

  * As a retail company, you have three different POS models in your shops. By using an **Inventory Policy**, you are able to define a default configuration to your devices based on the device's model.
  
{{:tip.png |}}**Automatically distributes a monitoring rule to devices which belong to a specific group**\\

  * You have defined Monitoring Rules for your devices and you want to make sure that any existing - and also new devices - that are part of this group are monitored. You can use the **Group Policy** to achieve this.

{{:tip.png |}}**Execute a task each time your devices start**\\

  * Each time your devices start, you want to execute a custom script, you can use the **Start Policy** for that purpose.