Accessing policy manager, Creating policies – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual
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Managing Policies
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Protection policies
- Monitors the backups on your network. For example, polices can be
created to notify you if a backup failed on a backup client.
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Infrastructure policies
- Monitors the following:
• A new element is discovered
• Successful provisioning occurred
• An event occurred on one or more specified elements
Accessing Policy Manager
This topic provides the various techniques for accessing Policy Manager. You have only one way to
access policies for discovery, provisioning, and events; however, you have multiple ways to access
policies. The flexibility in accessing utilization policies lets you easily create and manage policies
without interrupting your work flow.
Policy Manager provides the following options for accessing policies:
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To access from System Manager
- Double-click an element in System Manager and then click
the Policies tab. This method displays the utilization policies for just the element that was
double-clicked.
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To access policies for file servers
- Access the Policy tab in Application Viewer. Expand the
Applications
and File Servers nodes in the tree in Application Viewer. Click the file server
name in the Application Viewer tree. Click the Policies tab in the right pane.
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To access policies for backup elements
- Select one of the following elements in Backup
Manager, and then click Policies in the lower-right corner:
• Backup Clients
• Backup Library
• Master backup server
• Master backup media
To access all policies in Policy Manager:
1.
Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Policy Manager or click Tools > Storage Essentials >
Home
. Then, click Policy Manager in the left pane.
2.
Click a policy in the Policy Manager tree.
Creating Policies
This section describes the following:
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Creating a Utilization or Backup Policy
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Creating Policies for Discovery
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Creating Policies for Provisioning
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