To schedule a policy audit
Purpose
Perform this procedure to schedule a policy audit to perform regular audits on selected policies and NEs. Prior to scheduling a policy audit, you must first create the NFM-P-based schedule; see To configure an NFM-P-based schedule .
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.
Note: You can configure the maximum number of scheduled audits that are stored for a local policy by setting the Max Number Of Audit Result stored per Local Policy parameter in the System Preferences. See the NSP System Administrator Guide for more information.
Steps
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Choose Tools→Policies Audit from the NFM-P main menu. The Policy Audit (Edit) form opens. |
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Configure the required parameters. |
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Click Schedule Audit and choose Create. The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Create) form opens. |
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Configure the required parameters. |
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Click Select in the Schedule panel and choose a schedule from the Select Schedule - Policy Audit Scheduled tasks form. |
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Click OK and close the form. The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Create) form reappears. |
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Click on the Audit tab. |
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Select one or more policy types that you want to include in the audit from the Selected Policies panel. |
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Select one or more NEs that you want to include in the audit from the Selected NEs panel. |
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Click Apply. The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Create) form is updated with the changes. |
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Click Start Audit or Stop Audit operations, as required. The User Activity displays the creation, modification, start and stop operations of the scheduled audit. |
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Once a scheduled policy audit is complete, click Schedule Audit and choose View from the menu to access the audit results. The Policy Audit Schedule Tasks list form opens. |
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Select a scheduled task from the list and click Properties.The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Edit) form opens. |
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Click on the Audit Scheduled Task Results tab to view a list of results. |
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Select an entry and click Properties to review specific results. The Viewing Old Audit Result indicator determines if you are viewing the latest audit result or not. |
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Close all open forms. End of steps |