Creating and Assigning Policy Plans

Before you can create policy plans, you must have available the items that will be contained in each of its component items.

• Groups that you will use as Target and Select Groups. More info...

• Profiles that you created in Command Center and enabled to display in Enterprise Manager. More info...

You create policy plans under the Policy Plan item in Enterprise Manager, nest them into policy trees if desired, then assign them to Target groups. The tasks you perform are:

• Create an empty policy plan to use as the root policy.

• Build one or more policy plans and populate them with groups and profiles.

• Build the policy tree under the Policy Plan item.

• Assign the policy tree to a Target Group.

To create an empty policy plan to use as the root policy:

1. Right-click the Policy Plans item and choose Add New Policy.

2. In the Attributes dialog, provide a name and optional description.

Do not put any data in this policy.

To build a policy plan:

1. Right-click Policy Plans and choose Add New Policy.

2. In the Attributes dialog, provide a name and optional description.

3. From the configuration's list of groups, drag a group to the policy's SELECT folder.

4. From the configuration's Master Profiles item, drag the appropriate profile to the policy's APPLY folder.

5. Drag an appropriate profile to the policy's REMOVE folder.

6. Build additional policies as needed and populate their SELECT, APPLY, and REMOVE folders.

To build a policy tree:

1. Do this under the Policy Plan item.

2. Start with the empty policy plan you created.

3. Drag the policy plan you want to use as the second-level policy, to the empty policy plan.

4. Expand the empty policy plan to display the second-level policy name.

5. If desired, drag the third-level policy to the second-level policy.

To assign the policy tree to a Target Group:

1. Drag the root policy plan to the Target Group.