To perform a policy audit for global policy

Purpose

An audit compares all local policies with the associated global policy. A policy audit can be performed on all NEs in the network, or limited to a specific NE or group of NEs. All NEs are included in the audit unless they are explicitly chosen. A policy audit cannot be started when another policy audit is in progress.

CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Performing this procedure is potentially service-affecting.

If NEs are not specified, all NEs that are in the users span of control are included in the policy audit.

Note: Validation is performed to prevent policies from being audited if the user span of control prohibits the operation.

If a user performs an audit on objects that are not within their span of control, the audit is aborted and a error message is displayed. The error message indicates which objects are prohibited.

Steps
 

Choose Policies→ Policy_Type from the NFM-P main menu, where Policy_Type is the type of policy that you want to audit. The appropriate policies manager form opens.


Click Search and choose a policy in the list.


Click Properties. The Policy_Name Global Policy (Edit) form opens.


Click on the Local Definitions tab. A list of local policies is displayed.


Perform one of the following:

  1. To audit a specific local policy or a group of local policies, go to Step 6.

  2. If all local policies in the list are included in the audit, go to Step 7.


Select one or multiple local policies that you want to include in the audit.


Click Policy Audit. A Policy Audit (Edit) form opens.


Click on the General tab.


Configure the required parameters.


10 

Click Start Audit to proceed with the policy audit. Click Stop Audit to interrupt the audit while it is in progress. A discrepancy between a global policy and a local instance of the policy generates an alarm. Monitor the dynamic alarm window to view alarms that are generated as a result of the policy audit.


11 

Double-click on the alarm in the alarm window. The Alarm Info form opens.


12 

Click View Alarmed Object. The Global Policy (Edit) form opens.


13 

Perform Step 6 to Step 8 of To identify differences between a global and local policy or two local policies to locate the discrepancies between the local and global policies.


14 

Close all open forms.

End of steps