Managing policies

This topic provides general instructions for the following policy management tasks:
editing, deleting, enabling and disabling.

Before you begin

Enable Central Monitoring Administration and log on to Central Monitoring Administration. Enabling and configuring Central Monitoring Administrationfor details.

Note

Policies with only threshold configuration or server side configuration are applicable only after a policy with monitor configuration is applied.

To edit a monitoring policy

When you update a policy, all changes are automatically pushed to BMC PATROL Agents with a matching tag.
 Follow these high-level steps to edit a monitoring policy:

  1. In the navigation pane of Central Monitoring Administration, click the Policies drawer and select a policy view.
  2. Select a policy and click Edit ico_edit.png.
  3. Edit general settings, see Configuring-general-settings.
  4. Perform one or more of the following actions:
  5. Click Update.

To delete a monitoring policy

Warning

Deleting a policy deletes all monitor instances and most settings configured through the policy. Devices remain in the User Groups to which they have been added.

  1. In the navigation pane of Central Monitoring Administration, click the Policies drawer and select a policy view.
  2. Select one or more policies and click Delete ico_delete.png.
  3. To confirm deletion, click Yes.

To enable or disable a monitoring policy

Enable or disable policies for maintenance and troubleshooting. When a policy is disabled, the policy and its associations remain intact, but the policy configuration is not applied until the policy is enabled again.

  1. In the navigation pane of Central Monitoring Administration, click the Policies drawer and select a policy view.
  2. Select one or more policies and click Enable ico_enable.png or Disable ico_disable.png.

 

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