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# Account lifecycle policies

The ***Account lifecycle policies*** section allows administrators to create and edit separate policies for account lifecycle, password rotations, heartbeat schedule, and propagation. These policies can be applied directly to specific providers (in ***Administration*** – ***Privileged access management (PAM)*** – ***Edit*** – ***Account lifecycle policy***), or configured to be applied by default to all accounts.

![](https://cdnweb.devolutions.net/docs/DVLS4273_2026_1.png)

<table><thead><tr><th width="242">SETTINGS</th><th>DESCRIPTIONS</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Name</strong></td><td>Set a name for the account lifecycle policy.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Set as default</strong></td><td>Apply the account lifecycle policy to every account provider by default.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Password policy mode</strong></td><td>Enable/disable the password policy.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Password policy</strong></td><td>Choose a password policy. Requires policies to have been created previously in <em><strong>Administration</strong></em> – <em><strong>Password policy.</strong></em></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Action on checkin</strong></td><td>Define an action to be performed upon checking in an entry.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Manual password rotation</strong></td><td>Enable/disable manual password rotation. To manually rotate a password, go to the entry to rotate, click <em><strong>More</strong></em> (vertical ellipsis button), and select <em><strong>Reset password</strong></em>.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Password rotation schedule</strong></td><td>Set a schedule for automatic password rotation.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Heartbeat</strong></td><td>Enable/disable heartbeat.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Heartbeat schedule</strong></td><td>Set a schedule for the heartbeat. Requires the <a href="https://docs.devolutions.net/server/kb/knowledge-base/scheduler-service-general-information/">Scheduler service</a>.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Propagation</strong></td><td>Select a propagation script, provided one was created in <em><strong>Administration</strong></em> – <em><strong>Privileged access management (PAM)</strong></em> – <em><strong>Propagation</strong></em>.</td></tr></tbody></table>


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