You can deploy application files on non Windows Agent computers by using Universal Policies to harden, manage, and persist application settings on these computers. With these Universal Policies in place, any attempts to modify an application configuration from the Agent computer will be overwritten by the Universal Policy configuration.
This is done from the Deploy Files node by importing existing application files into one or more Universal Policies and assigning the Universal Policies to the non Windows Agent OU. All changes going to these applications can then be managed from the Universal Policies in Active Directory.
For example, if you have a Web Service in your enterprise environment that manages user access on the Internet or Intranet by restricting communication based on IP addresses, you can modify these settings in the Universal Policy.
Before you can manage a non Windows Agent application by using a Universal Policy, the following prerequisites need to be met:
Universal Policies must be linked to applicable non Windows agents
You need to know the relative path for deploying the configuration file on the agent
You need to know the location of the application file you will use to configure the group policy
To begin managing Non Windows applications using Universal Policies:
Select a Universal Policy and click Policies to open the Add Policies dialog box.
Expand the Linux folder, and click the Deploy Files node.
Click the browse button and locate the application file.
Enter the relative path on the Linux Agent(s) where you will deploy the GPO configuration file.
Click Add.
Once you have the application file added to the Universal Policy make any required configuration changes from the Web Console and save your changes to apply the policy to the non Windows Agent computers.
NOTE:You can add and deploy more than one application configuration to a Universal Policy.