Managing policies

Use the Infrastructure Policies page to view and manage a policy. By default, Solution Administrators have full access to all policies in all realms (tenants). Tenant Administrators have full access to all policies in their realm (tenant). Certain policy management operations can only be performed by the owner of the policy. For more information about the different types of policies, see Policy-management.

Fields and options on the Infrastructure Policies page

The following figure highlights the various fields and options that are available on the page.

To create, modify, or copy a policy

Depending on the type of policy that you want to create, in the Infrastructure Policies page, click the tab for that policy type.

• To create a policy: Click the Main action menu and select Create Policy. Alternatively, click the Create Policy button. The Create Policy page is displayed where you can configure the policy as per your requirements.
• To modify a policy: Click the action menu of the policy that you want to modify and select Edit. The Edit Policy page is displayed with the policy configurations that you can modify as per your requirements.

• To create a copy of a policy: Click the action menu of the policy that you want to copy and select Copy. The Create Policy page is displayed with the configurations of the copied policy. You can modify the configurations as per your requirements.

  Note

  If you are not a user of the associated user group in the original policy, then you need to first select a user group. If the selected user group does not have access to monitoring solutions or configuration tabs from the original policy, then they will not be available in the copied policy.

For more information, see the following topics:

To delete a policy

1. Depending on the type of policy that you want to delete, in the Infrastructure Policies page, click the tab for that policy type.
2. Ensure that the policy to be deleted is in disabled state. If not, click the action menu of the policy and select Disable.
3. Click the policy action menu and select Delete.

To enable or disable a policy

1. Depending on the type of policy that you want to work on, in the Infrastructure Policies page, click the tab for that policy type.
2. Click the policy action menu and select Enable for an already disabled policy, or Disable for an enabled policy.

To share a policy with the associated user group or remove the applied sharing

You can share or remove sharing with the associated user group only for policies that you have created.

1. Depending on the type of policy that you want to work on, in the Infrastructure Policies page, click the tab for that policy type.
2. Click the policy action menu and select Share or Remove Sharing depending on the current sharing status of the policy.

To find or view a specific policy

The Policies page displays all policies for the selected policy type. The default maximum number of polices that can be displayed is 1000. You can change the display limit by entering the following command in the command prompt window:

Perform the following actions to find or view a specific policy.

1. Depending on the type of policy that you want to view, in the Infrastructure Policies page, click the Policy type tab. The page displays all policies for the selected type.
2. Use any one or a combination of the following filters on the page to search for a specific policy:
   • Tenant filter by using the tenant action menu
   • Policy properties such as Enabled, Disabled, Shared, and Not Shared by using the Quick filters
   • Policy name by using the Policy search icon.
3. To view details of a policy, click the policy name. 

Where to go from here

After you view the list of available policies, you can perform any of the following procedures:

• Defining-a-monitoring-policy

• Defining-a-staging-policy
• Defining-a-blackout-policy