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

Managing Policies372
• successful provisioning
• the occurrance of an event on one or more specified elements
Accessing Policy Manager
This section describes the various techniques for accessing Policy Manager. Although there is only
one way to access policies for discovery, provisioning, and events; there are multiple ways to access
policies. This flexibility in accessing utilization policies lets you easily create and manage policies
without interrupting your work flow.
Policy Manager provides the following options for accessing policies:
• To access policies from System Manager - Double-click an element in System Manager and then
click the Policies tab. This method displays the utilization policies for just the element that was
double-clicked.
• To access policies for file servers - Access the Policy tab in Application Viewer. Expand the
Applications and File Servers nodes in the tree in Application Viewer. Click the file server name
in the Application Viewer tree. Click the Policies tab in the right pane.
• To access policies for backup elements - Select one of the following elements in Backup
Manager, and then click Policies in the lower-right corner:
• Backup Clients
• Backup Library
• Master backup server
• Master backup media
To access all policies in Policy Manager:
1. Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Policy Manager or click Tools > Storage Essentials > Home,
and then click Policy Manager in the left pane.
2. Click a policy in the Policy Manager tree.
Creating Policies
This section contains the following topics:
• Actions Available for When a Policy Condition is Fulfilled, page 372
• Creating a Utilization or Backup Policy, page 373
• Creating Policies for Discovery, page 377
• Creating Policies for Provisioning, page 378
• Creating Policies for Events, page 379
• Testing a Utilization Policy, page 380
Actions Available for When a Policy Condition is Fulfilled
When you create or modify a policy, you must select an action to occur when the policy condition is
fulfilled. More than one action can be assigned to a policy. The following actions are available: