User Manual v12.3.0 Owner's manual

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Chapter

Policy Monitor

In this chapter

•Policy monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229

•Preconfigured configuration policy managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235

•Viewing configuration policy manager status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236

•Viewing existing configuration policy managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236

•Adding a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238

•Configuration policy manager scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243

•Editing a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245

•Deleting a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245

•Configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246

•Running a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1266

•Viewing a configuration policy manager report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267

•Viewing historical reports for all configuration policy managers . . . . . . 1270

•Viewing historical reports for a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . 1271

Policy monitor overview

Use the Policy Monitor feature to provide best practice guidelines for network setup at the fabric,

switch, port, and device level, as well as software configurations at the Fabric OS, Ironware,

Network OS, and the Management application level.

Configuring policy monitors enables you to perform the following:

• Provide selectable and configurable built-in rules to check for best practices

• Schedule policies to run periodically

• Run a policy manually (on demand)

• Generate a report that will detail any issues found by the policy