To perform a policy audit for multiple global policies with same type

Purpose

An audit compares all local policies with the associated global policies. 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 can be performed on one or multiple global policies with the same type. 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


1	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.
2	Click Search and choose one or multiple policies in the list.
3	Click Policy Audit. A Policy Audit (Edit) form opens.
4	Click Add and select a policy or multiple policies in the list.
5	Click OK. The Policy Audit (Edit) form refreshes with the selected policies.
6	Click on the General tab.
7	Configure the required parameters.
8	Perform one of the following: To audit selected global policies on selected NEs, go to Step 9. To audit selected global policies on the entire network, go to Step 10.
9	Select NEs to include in the audit, if required. Click on the Network Element Selection tab to select an NE, or group of NEs to be audit. Click Add.The Select Site form opens. Click Search and choose the NEs to be included in the audit. Save your changes and close the form.
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