You use the Dynamic Environment Manager Management Console to create a Horizon smart policy in Dynamic Environment Manager. When you define a Horizon smart policy, you can add conditions that must be met for the smart policy to take effect.
You can create policies for user environment settings that control a range of behaviors. Horizon Smart Policies for user environment settings are applied during login and can be refreshed during reconnect of a session. To reapply Horizon Smart Policies when a user reconnects to a session, you can configure a triggered task.
For complete information about using the Dynamic Environment Manager Management Console, see the VMware Dynamic Environment Manager Administration Guide document.
Prerequisites
- Install and configure Dynamic Environment Manager. See Installing Dynamic Environment Manager and Configuring Dynamic Environment Manager.
- Become familiar with the conditions that you can add to Horizon Smart Policy definitions. See Adding Conditions to Horizon Smart Policy Definitions and Environment Variable Definitions.
- Enable the DEMEnable option and configure the DEMNetworkPath option in the /etc/vmware/viewagent-custom.conf file. See Setting Options in Configuration Files on a Linux Desktop.
Procedure
Results
Dynamic Environment Manager processes multiple smart policies in alphabetical order based on the smart policy name. Horizon smart policies appear in alphabetical order in the Horizon Smart Policies pane. If smart policies conflict, the last smart policy processed takes precedence. For example, if you have a smart policy named Sue that enables USB redirection for the user named Sue, and another smart policy named Pool that deactivates USB redirection for the desktop pool named Ubuntu1804, the USB redirection feature is enabled when Sue connects to a remote desktop in the Ubuntu1804 desktop pool.