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


1	Choose Tools→Policies Audit from the NFM-P main menu. The Policy Audit (Edit) form opens.
2	Configure the required parameters.
3	Click Schedule Audit and choose Create. The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Create) form opens.
4	Configure the required parameters.
5	Click Select in the Schedule panel and choose a schedule from the Select Schedule - Policy Audit Scheduled tasks form.
6	Click OK and close the form. The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Create) form reappears.
7	Click on the Audit tab.
8	Select one or more policy types that you want to include in the audit from the Selected Policies panel.
9	Select one or more NEs that you want to include in the audit from the Selected NEs panel.
10	Click Apply. The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Create) form is updated with the changes.
11	Click Start Audit or Stop Audit operations, as required. The User Activity displays the creation, modification, start and stop operations of the scheduled audit.
12	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.
13	Select a scheduled task from the list and click Properties.The Policy Audit Scheduled Tasks (Edit) form opens.
14	Click on the Audit Scheduled Task Results tab to view a list of results.
15	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.
16	Close all open forms. End of steps