HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software User Manual
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Managing Policies
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Manager so you receive an e-mail message when the amount of free space on a server decreases
to a specified level.
Keep in mind the following:
•
If you plan to use e-mail notification with your policy, first assign an SMTP server from which the
management server can send its e-mail notifications. See ”
Setting Up E-mail Notification
•
Policies that are triggered for virtual applications are also triggered for file servers.
To create a utilization or Backup policy:
1.
Access Policy Manager as described in the topic, ”
2.
In the left pane, select an element or element type you want the policy to apply to.
3.
In the right pane, click Add.
4.
Select a policy, and click Next. See
on page 375 for information about the policy
types available.
NOTE:
This step is not applicable for backup libraries.
5.
In the Name box on the Policy Properties tab, enter a name for the policy or keep the default.
6.
In the Description box, modify the description for the policy or keep the default.
7.
In the Re-arm Period box, specify the amount of time (in minutes) after the policy executes before
it can execute again. The re-arm period is useful for limiting the number of times the same
actions will execute.
IMPORTANT:
Specify shorter periods for important applications.
8.
If you are setting a policy for a backup client, go to Step 11.
9.
In the Condition menu, specify a comparison operator.
10.
(Available for only backup libraries). To the left of the comparison operator, select the media
pool you want to monitor.
11.
To the right of the Comparison Operator menu, take the followoing action, depending on the
box displayed:
• Enter a percentage.
• Enter an amount in gigabytes (GB).
• Type the number of available media that will trigger an alert. For example, if you want to be
alerted when the number of available media for a storage pool is less than two, you would
set the conditional to less than (<). You would then enter 2 in the Media box.
12.
For trending policies, enter the number of days in the Historic period box
(min=7; max=180) and Projection period box (min=1; max=180).
13.
Select an action to occur when the policy condition is fulfilled. For more information, see
Actions Available for When a Policy Condition is Fulfilled
14.
Click Finish.