See Modes and permissions for what each mode does with every action.
Before you start
- Raff Guardian on the server.
- Permission to manage the server (
vm.manage). Other members see the settings read only.
Choose how much it may do on its own
1
Open Settings
Open the server under Virtual Machines, click Guardian, then Settings. The Raff Guardian group’s first row, How Raff looks after it, shows the current mode.
2
Pick a mode
Click Change and pick Raff manages everything, Ask me before changes or Watch only. It saves at once.
3
Keep or replace your own choices
If you set some actions yourself and the new mode would change them, Raff Guardian names them, for example “You set Free disk space to Off. With Ask me before changes it becomes Ask me.” Click:
- Use followed by the mode name, to set every action to the mode’s default.
- Keep my choices, to keep the actions you set yourself as they are.
- Cancel, to change nothing.
Set permissions for each action
- In the Raff Guardian group, on Each action on its own, click Open. The Raff Guardian settings panel opens.
- Click Advanced: choose for each action. Actions are grouped as Updates, Security, Users, Licences, Power, Maintenance, Commands and Raff Guardian.
- Set each action:
- Auto: Raff Guardian does it on its own and records it.
- Ask me: it asks you first. See Approve or decline a change.
- Off: never.
Verify
The Raff Guardian card on the Overview names the mode under its title. Activity, in the Settings category, has a line such as “You chose Ask me before changes. 4 actions changed.”Next steps
Schedule Windows updates
When updates may install, and whether to ask first.
Approve or decline a change
Answer what Raff Guardian asks on Ask me.