{"id":7989,"date":"2026-10-15T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=7989"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:54:34","slug":"policy-in-use-for-a-host-is-shown-as-not-latest-in-policy-manager-consoles-status-centralized-management-tab-when-an-operation-is-started","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/support-articles\/policy-in-use-for-a-host-is-shown-as-not-latest-in-policy-manager-consoles-status-centralized-management-tab-when-an-operation-is-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy in use for a host is shown as &#8222;not latest&#8220; in Policy Manager Console&#8217;s Status > Centralized Management tab when an operation is started"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>The &quot;Policy in use&quot; column for one or more hosts is shown as &quot;not latest&quot; in the Policy Manager Console&#39;s <strong>Status &gt; Centralized Management<\/strong> tab when an operation is started from the <strong>Operations <\/strong>tab.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the status reverted back to &quot;latest&quot;.\u00a0Why did the policy status change to &quot;not latest&quot; when one of these operations is started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virus and spyware scan\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Virus definition updates<\/li>\n<li>Product updates<\/li>\n<li>Network isolation<\/li>\n<li>WithSecure Support Tool\n<p>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>So for example when a Policy Manager admin user sends a &quot;Virus and spyware scan&quot; operation, the operation is sent to all the selected hosts within a policy domain in the form of a new policy. When they click on &quot;Scan&quot; from Policy Manager Console&#39;s <strong>Operations<\/strong> tab, a policy will be sent to the selected hosts. This is the reason why the <strong>Status <\/strong>tab can briefly show &quot;Not latest&quot; status, because the host can be offline (turned off) or simply hasn&#39;t yet reported back that is has received the policy.<\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>Status &gt; Centralized management <\/strong>tab you can add the <strong>Policy counter on host <\/strong>and <strong>Policy counter on server <\/strong>columns to the table if you want to see that the policy counter on server increases immediately after starting an operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8222;Policy in use&#8220; column for one or more hosts is shown as &#8222;not latest&#8220; in the Policy Manager Console&#8217;s Status > Centralized Management tab when an operation is started from the Operations tab.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the status reverted back to &#8222;latest&#8220;.\u00a0Why did the policy status change to &#8222;not latest&#8220; when one of these operations is started:<\/p>\n<p>Virus and spyware scan\u00a0<br \/>\nVirus definition updates<br \/>\nProduct updates<br \/>\nNetwork isolation<br \/>\nWithSecure Support Tool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-7989","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005530","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-15 11:54:34","import_hash":"c8c25f08dc9c478e8ff5f4bb88d4129b22670e13","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}