A policy specifies a set of actions to be taken when a specific condition on the BMC PATROL Agent is fulfilled. A policy enables you to perform the following actions:
Each policy is assigned a BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration tag and each BMC PATROL Agent can have one or more tags assigned to it. When you assign a tag to a BMC PATROL Agent, the associated policy is applied to the PATROL Agent. You can assign the tag value of a policy to a PATROL Agent in the following ways:
If the PATROL Agent has already been installed, use PATROL Configuration Manager to set the following ruleset that provides the tags:
/AgentSetup/Identification/Tags/TAG/tagName=tagDescription
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For example, if the tag that has to be applied is oracleTag, the ruleset is as follows
/AgentSetup/Identification/Tags/TAG/oracleTag= “SYBASE MONITORING”
Enter one or more comma separated Central Monitoring Administration tags in the format TagName:Description. If the description contains a space, enter the description in double quotes (").
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For example, TagName1:”UNIX Policy”, TagName2:Linux
In BMC ProactiveNet version 9.0, the tag description is ignored, and only the tag name is used to evaluate the policy.