Scout Enterprise Management Suite

Parent applications

March 3, 2025

Contributed by:

C M

By default, applications are inherited to subordinate OUs. This allows you to define applications in only few but central places.

For the subordinate OUs, in the tree view, on the Applications context menu, the option Use parent applications > All is enabled (check mark). With the check mark set, all applications are active that have been defined for higher-level OUs or for the top-level OU. In addition to these applications, you can define more applications valid for this individual OU (and subordinate OUs).

Disabling inheritance of applications

For an OU that you do not want to receive higher-level applications, open the context menu.
Click Use parent applications > All to remove the check mark.

The OU cannot use higher-level applications and cannot inherit them to subordinate OUs any-longer. Only applications defined within that OU are active.

Inheriting only individual applications

For the OU that you want to receive some of the applications defined for a higher-level OU or at top-level, open the context menu.
Make sure that the option Use parent applications > All is cleared (no check mark).
On the sub-menu Use parent applications, under All, select the application you want to inherit from above.

The selected application, on the sub-menu, receives a check mark, and its definition is provided on the next device restart for that OU.

Note:

Inherited properties of the selected applications will be lost if you move the respective OU to another parent OU. For moved OUs, the system automatically enables Use parent applications > All.[1[[ ]from Scout 15 2101]]

Show defined applications for an OU

Click View > Window > OU devices/applications to display the relevant window.
In the tree view, click the Applications icon below an OU.

For the selected OU, all defined applications are listed. The Origin column shows the OU from which an application is inherited. Top-level applications show the value Base.

Dia app

The selected OU of the figure above has one own application (no entry in the Origin column), four applications from the higher-level OU DE, and one top-level application.

Note:

To also apply the default settings of the parent applications, on the Applications context menu, select the Use parent defaults option. For further information, see Software defaults(app_defaults.htm).

The official version of this content is in English. Some of the Cloud Software Group documentation content is machine translated for your convenience only. Cloud Software Group has no control over machine-translated content, which may contain errors, inaccuracies or unsuitable language. No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made as to the accuracy, reliability, suitability, or correctness of any translations made from the English original into any other language, or that your Cloud Software Group product or service conforms to any machine translated content, and any warranty provided under the applicable end user license agreement or terms of service, or any other agreement with Cloud Software Group, that the product or service conforms with any documentation shall not apply to the extent that such documentation has been machine translated. Cloud Software Group will not be held responsible for any damage or issues that may arise from using machine-translated content.

Was this helpful

Parent applications

March 3, 2025

Contributed by:

C M

Parent applications

Disabling inheritance of applications

Inheriting only individual applications

Show defined applications for an OU

In this article