5.22 Understanding Policy Versions

Policy Change Management allows you to create either a sandbox-only policy or a Published version of the policy. If you edit a published version of the policy, a sandbox is created. You can choose to publish the sandbox either as a new version of the policy or a new policy.

For more information on publishing the sandbox, see Section 5.24, Publishing a Sandbox.

For more information on the policy versions, see Section 5.23, Managing Policy Versions.

The Displayed Version option on the policy’s page lists all the existing versions of the policy, and the latest version of the policy is selected by default. However, if a sandbox exists, the sandbox is selected by default.

Scenario:

  1. Consider a policy named sos1 that is created as a sandbox. The Displayed Version option on the policy page lists sandbox and it is selected by default.

  2. Click Publish to publish the sandbox to a new version. The Displayed Version option on the policy page now lists 0(Published) and it is selected by default.

  3. Edit the policy’s description to create a sandbox. The Displayed Version option on the policy page now lists 0(Published) and sandbox. sandbox is selected by default.

  4. Click Publish to publish the sandbox to a new version. The Displayed Version option on the policy page now lists 0(Published), and 1(Published). The policy’s latest version, 1(Published), is selected by default.

    0(Published) is the older version of the policy.

  5. Edit the policy’s description again to create a sandbox. The Displayed Version option on the policy page now lists 0(Published), 1(Published), and sandbox. sandbox is selected by default.

    0(Published) is the older version of the policy and 1(Published) is the latest version of the policy.

  6. Click Publish to publish the sandbox to a new version. The Displayed Version option on the policy page now lists 0(Published), 1(Published), 2(Published). The policy’s latest version, 2(Published), is selected by default.

    0(Published) and 1(Published) are the older versions of the policy; and 2(Published) is the latest version of the policy.