Policy monitor, Policy monitor overview, Chapter 31 – Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v12.3.0 User Manual

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Chapter

31

Policy Monitor

In this chapter

Policy monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231

Preconfigured configuration policy managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237

Viewing configuration policy manager status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238

Viewing existing configuration policy managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239

Adding a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1240

Configuration policy manager scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246

Editing a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247

Deleting a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248

Running a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248

Viewing a configuration policy manager report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249

Viewing historical reports for all configuration policy managers . . . . . . 1253

Viewing historical reports for a configuration policy manager . . . . . . . . 1253

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 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

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