To perform a policy audit for policy groups and types

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 policy groups and policy types. A policy audit cannot be started when another policy audit is in progress.

CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

If a policy type of global policy is not specified, all policies in the user span of control are included in the policy audit.

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

Performing a policy audit may take one or more hours to complete.

Note: Validation is performed to prevent policies from being audited if the use 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 Tools→Policies Audit from the NFM-P main menu. The Policy Audit - audit status (Edit) form opens.

2 

Configure the required parameters.

3 

Perform one of the following steps:

  1. To choose policy groups and policy types to be included in the audit, go to Step 4.

  2. If all policy groups and policy types are included in the audit, go to Step 10 to configure which NEs to include in the audit.

  3. If all policy groups and policy types and the entire network is included in the audit, go to Step 11.

4 

Click on the Policy Group Selection tab.

5 

Right-click on the Policy Audit icon and choose Select Policy Groups from the contextual menu. The Select Policy Groups form opens.

6 

Select policy groups as required and click OK.The chosen policy group keys appear below the Policy Audit icon.

7 

Perform one of the following steps:

  1. To choose which policy types within the selected groups are included in the audit, go to Step 8.

  2. If all policy types within the selected groups are included in the audit, go to Step 10.

8 

Right-click on a policy group icon and choose Select Policy types. The Select Policy types - Policy Audit form opens.

9 

Select the policy types as required and click OK. The chosen policy type icons appear below the Policy Audit icon.

10 

Select NEs to include in the audit, if required:

  1. Click on the Network Element Selection tab to select an NE, or group of NEs to be audit.

  2. Click Add. The Select Site form opens.

  3. Click Search and choose the NEs to be included in the audit.

  4. Save your changes and close the form.

11 

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.

12 

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

13 

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

14 

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.

15 

Close all open forms.

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