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Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrator’s Guide 25

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Working with MAPS policies

Modifying a policy

In some cases you might need to modify a policy, for example, if elements in the fabric change or if

threshold configurations need to be modified to catch certain error conditions.

To modify a policy and its associated rules, complete the following steps.

1. Modify the rules in the policy based on your requirements.

You cannot modify the default rules, but you can add rules to and delete rules from the policy,

and you can create rules and add them to the policy.

Use mapsPolicy to add rules to and delete rules from the policy. Use mapsRule to modify rules

or to create rules and add them to the policy.

2. If the policy is the active policy, you must enable the policy for the changes to take effect.

switch:admin> mapspolicy --enable my_policy

Changing the rules of the active policy does not take effect until you re-enable the policy.

The following example adds a rule to the policy named daily_policy, displays the policy, and then

re-enables the policy so the change can become active.

switch:admin> mapspolicy --addrule daily_policy -rulename check_crc

switch:admin> mapspolicy --show daily_policy

Policy Name: daily_policy

Rule List :

check_crc

defALL_E_PORTSITW_21

defALL_E_PORTSITW_40

myCHASSISFLASH_USAGE_90

Active Policy is ’daily_policy’

switch:admin> mapspolicy --enable daily_policy

Modifying a default policy

For a new switch or when you upgrade an existing switch to Fabric OS 7.1.0 or later, the default

MAPS policy is dflt_moderate_policy. You cannot modify this predefined policy, but you can clone it

to create a new policy.

To modify the default policy, complete the following steps.

1. Create a copy of the default policy.

switch:admin> mapspolicy --clone dflt_moderate_policy -name my_policy

2. Modify the rules in the policy based on your requirements.

You cannot modify the default rules, but you can add rules to and delete rules from the policy,

and you can create or clone rules and add them to the policy.

Use mapsPolicy to add and delete rules to and from the policy. Use mapsRule to create rules

and add them to the policy.

3. Enable the policy.

switch:admin> mapspolicy --enable my_policy

The previously-enabled policy is disabled, and the specified policy is enabled.