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automatic_policies:overview

Overview


Stage automatically & Enforce business compliance


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


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.

Xcalibur W enables to create policies by combining the events and actions below.

Available Events
Device is enrolled
Device starts
Device joins group
Device matches following inventory criteria
Available Actions
Move device to group
Play task
Apply monitoring rule

Use Cases


Below are some scenarios provided as example purpose.

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.

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.

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.
automatic_policies/overview.txt · Last modified: 2021/11/21 17:18 (external edit)