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 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
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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. |
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Click Search and choose a policy in the list. |
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Click Properties. The Policy_Name Global Policy (Edit) form opens. |
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Click on the Local Definitions tab. A list of local policies is displayed. |
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Perform one of the following:
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Select one or multiple local policies that you want to include in the audit. |
7 |
Click Policy Audit. A Policy Audit (Edit) form opens. |
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Click on the General tab. |
9 |
Configure the required parameters. |
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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. |
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Double-click on the alarm in the alarm window. The Alarm Info form opens. |
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Click View Alarmed Object. The Global Policy (Edit) form opens. |
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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. |
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Close all open forms. End of steps |