HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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12 Managing Policies
Depending on your license, Policy Manager may not be available. See the List of Features to
determine if you have access to Policy Manager. The List of Features is accessible from the
Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
This chapter contains the following topics:
• About Policy Manager, page 371
• Accessing Policy Manager, page 372
• Creating Policies, page 372
• Modifying Policies, page 380
• Viewing Policies, page 383
• Deactivating a Policy, page 383
• Deleting Policies, page 384
• Providing E-mail Notification for a Policy, page 384
• Providing Event Generation for a Policy, page 385
• Providing a Custom Command for a Policy, page 385
About Policy Manager
Policy Manager can automatically send an e-mail, generate an event, or run a custom script when
an element is being overused or when one of the following events occurs:
• A new element is discovered
• Successful provisioning occurred
• An event occurs on one or more specified elements
IMPORTANT: Collectors gather information for reports, monitoring and File System Viewer. Policies
are not triggered when a collector is running. If you configured a policy to be triggered when a host
has a critical event and the collector is running when a critical event occurs, the policy is not
triggered.
Policy Manager allows you to create the following types of policies:
• Utilization policies - Monitor the utilization of an element. Options provided depend on the type
of element.
For example, you can configure Policy Manager so you receive an e-mail message when the
amount of free space on a server decreases to a specified level.
• Protection policies - Monitor the backups on your network. For example, polices can be created
to notify you if a backup failed on a backup client.
• Infrastructure policies - Monitor the following:
• the discovery of a new element