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


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 a policy in the list.
3	Click Properties. The Policy_Name Global Policy (Edit) form opens.
4	Click on the Local Definitions tab. A list of local policies is displayed.
5	Perform one of the following: To audit a specific local policy or a group of local policies, go to Step 6. If all local policies in the list are included in the audit, go to Step 7.
6	Select one or multiple local policies that you want to include in the audit.
7	Click Policy Audit. A Policy Audit (Edit) form opens.
8	Click on the General tab.
9	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