Policy Management

Download the scripts here: polscripts.zip

These tools can be used to manipulate/list policies and packages.  These scripts are handy for large enterprise environments that wish to automate policy management in a lights-out manner.

 

Policy Auditing Tools

ZIP Archive Name Description
OVCaRP.zip Compare and Reconcile Policy inventories between manager and nodes - and report/fix any inconsistencies.
ConsolePolicy.zip New 8/26/04!  Reports all policies, all versions, who, what, when and where deployed in a simple console application.   
DepVerify.zip Tool to verify all policy deployment associations are applied to a node or a folder of nodes.  Includes a short whitepaper explaining policy auto-deployment mechanisms within OVOW.  Read the whitepaper, then use the tool as needed.
OvJobUtil.zip Tool to list all failed jobs in the job queue, and optionally restart them.  Updated December '05 with a new option to cancel all jobs.
OVPolicyReporter.zip Reporting tools for Policies, Versions, History and Conditions - please provide feedback directly to tools@OVInternals.com, as we're modifying this based on your response. 
listpolsingroup.zip List all policies registered to a particular group, including sub-groups and versions.

 

These scripts MUST be run with cscript.exe to display properly.   To make cscript.exe your default script engine, run cscript.exe /h:cscript.

The Scripts

Script Name (<mandatory parameters>) Description
DeployAutoGroups.vbs <node group ID> Force redeployment of node group associated policy groups
DeployFolderToNode.vbs <policy folder> <node ID> Deploy a policy group to a given node  Handy for building your own auto-deployment mechanism..
DumpPolicyFolder.vbs <folder name> Dump (export) a policy folder to an export directory - without sub-folders.
GetFailedJobs.vbs Get a listing of all jobs in Failed or Suspended status.
ListAllPolicies.vbs List ALL of the policies (and versions) to standard output.
ListInstalledPackages.vbs List packages installed to all nodes, with version numbers (handy for version checking).
ListPackagesVerNodes.vbs List all packages registered on the management server, with the nodes they are installed to.
ListPoliciesOnNode.vbs <primary node name> List all policies installed on a node.
RemovePoliciesOnNode.vbs <primary node name> Remove all policies installed on a node.
UpdateToLatestPolicies <primary node name> Update policies on a node to the latest available version.
RemovePoliciesFromNodeGroup.vbs <node group ID> Remove all policies from all nodes in a given node group.
DeployFolderToNode.vbs <policy folder> <node ID> Deploy a policy group to a given node  Handy for building your own auto-deployment mechanism..
ListNodesPolicies.VBS Lists all nodes in OVOW's node database, and all policies deployed to the nodes (if any)