Symantec provides upgrades and enhancements for SCSP agents at the majority of major and minor releases. With these updates comes enhancements and changes to the default policies supported by that agent and the management server.
It is often the case that SCSP policies are configured to cater for specific, bespoke applications. If these policies are based on existing base policies, we can upgrade them using the newer and improved base policies. This can enhance policies features whilst maintaining previously configured options.
This process demonstrates how to maintain all existing settings, whilst updating the policy to include any enhancements or changes made during a version upgrade. The process is simple and allows room for error.
In this particular example I will use version 5.2.8 and upgrade to version 5.2.9.