Policy Management and Deployment

Policies fall into two broad classifications: monitor policies and configuration policies. With monitor policies, you decide what kinds of events to monitor, how often to monitor, what to look for in the events, and what to do if certain events are detected. With configuration policies, you can change settings that determine which management server the agent reports to, how large buffer files should be, which proxy should be used for communication through a firewall, and so on.

This portion of the help explains the organizational tools that HPOM provides to help you manage the policies that you create, and explains how to deploy the policies to a managed node.

NOTE:
You must have the appropriate user rights to work with policies. See Configure policies for user roles for more information.

The policy management and deployment functionality runs as service (OvPmad), which you can stop and start by means of the standard Windows services manager. This is particularly advantageous if the management server runs in a high-availability environment, where the cluster software needs to be able to stop and start services on demand in the event of a system fail over.

It is also essential to be able to stop and start HPOM-related Windows services manually when you enable or disable the security-audit feature on the management server, for example if you want to audit which policies have been renamed, copied, or modified and, in addition, which policies or packages have been deployed to the managed nodes, when, and by whom.

HPOM provides a number of command line utilities you can use with the policy editor. See the help section Command-Line Utilities for details.

Related Topics:

• Choose a policy type
• Policy development
• Deploy a policy or policy group
• Audit policy management and deployment
• Enable and disable security audits