There a many reasons why you might need to modify your device data, including the following:
Create a generic device entry: When a device is added to a security policy, it serves as a filter against which detected devices are compared. The device data, or fields, make up the filter. If a detected device matches the policy’s device filter, the device is either enabled or disabled according to the policy setting.
The more generic a device filter is, the more devices can match it. In most cases, the following fields are sufficient to provide accurate matches for a device:
Serial Number
Vendor ID
Product ID
The more fields that you include in a device filter, the more you limit the number of matches for that device. If you include all of the fields for a scanned device, you can literally restrict the matches to the specific USB port on the computer where the device was scanned.
Add a name, access level, and enforcement level: ZENworks 11 security policies require a name to be assigned to the device. You can add a name, or let ZENworks Control Center provide a name during the import. For the USB Connectivity policy, the default format provided by the ZENworks Control Center import is USBDevice-dd-mm-yyyy hh-mm-ss-x , where x is a sequentially incremented number for each device imported during a single second. For the Storage Device Control policy, the default format provided by the ZENworks Control Center import is Storage_Device-dd-mm-yyyy hh-mm-ss-x
The USB Devices access level (USB Connectivity policy) defaults to and the Removable Drives enforcement level (Storage Device Control policy) defaults to . You can change the levels as needed.
Add a device entry: If you need to add a device that is not available to scan, you can manually add the device data.