{"id":3674,"date":"2018-10-16T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.238.172.127\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:38:03","slug":"create-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/policies\/create-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Create Policy<\/h2>\n

Create a new policy.<\/p>\n

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Arguments<\/strong><\/th>\nType<\/strong><\/th>\nDescription<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
name<\/td>\nString<\/td>\nName of the policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
description<\/td>\nString<\/td>\nDescription of the policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ios<\/td>\nDictionary<\/td>\nOptional. If provided this dictionary, provide the following keys:
\npassword<\/strong>, restrictions<\/strong>, advanced_restrictions<\/strong>, web_content_filter<\/strong>, wifi<\/strong>, email<\/strong>, activesync<\/strong>, ldap<\/strong>, caldav<\/strong>, subscribe_calendar<\/strong>, carddav<\/strong>, webclip<\/strong>, access_point<\/strong>, applock, wallpaper<\/strong>, globalproxy<\/strong>, lock_screen_msg<\/strong>, app_management<\/strong>. It can be set to null if nothing is configured<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
android<\/td>\nDictionary<\/td>\nOptional. If provided this dictionary, provide the following keys:
\npassword<\/strong>, restrictions<\/strong>, wifi<\/strong>, email<\/strong>, activesync<\/strong>, applock<\/strong>, app_management<\/strong> and wallpaper<\/strong>. It can also be set to null if nothing configured<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
general_settings<\/td>\nDictionary<\/td>\nOptional. Dictionary for general_settings currently contains only a location_settings<\/strong> key. Its value is a dictionary that contains keys trackingdisabled<\/strong> and interval_minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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Key<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\nType<\/span><\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
trackingdisabled <\/span><\/td>\n Boolean <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
interval_minutes <\/span><\/td>\n Integer <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
policy_targets<\/td>\nDictionary<\/td>\nOptional. Policy targets support users<\/strong>, devices<\/strong>, usergroups<\/strong> and devicegroups<\/strong> and values are list of their respective IDs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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curl<\/div>\n
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HTTP Request:<\/p>\n

POST https:\/\/.hexnodemdm.com\/api\/v1\/policy\/ \r\n<\/pre>\n
Shell Command:<\/p>\n
curl -H \"Authorization: \" -H \"Content-Type: application\/json\" -d '{\r\n \"name\": \"Sales Team Policy\",\"description\": \"\",\"ios\": {\r\n \"password\": {\r\n \"allow_simple\": true,\"require_alphanumeric\": false, \"max_failed_attempts\": 4,\"max_grace_period\": 5,\r\n \"max_inactivity\": 2,\"max_pinage_in_days\": 4,\"min_complex_chars\": 1,\"min_length\": 1,\"pin_history\": 4\r\n }} \r\n}' https:\/\/.hexnodemdm.com\/api\/v1\/policy\/ -X POST\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Create Policy Create a new policy. Arguments Type Description name String Name of the policy description String Description of the policy ios Dictionary Optional. If provided this dictionary, provide the following keys: password, restrictions, advanced_restrictions, web_content_filter, wifi, email, activesync, ldap, caldav, subscribe_calendar, carddav, webclip, access_point, applock, wallpaper, globalproxy, lock_screen_msg, app_management. It can be set to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3672,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3674","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3674\/revisions\/5017"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexnode.com\/mobile-device-management\/developers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}