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Policy Monitor
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Policy monitor overview

Use the Policy Monitor feature to provide best practice guidelines for network setup at the fabric,
switch, port, and device level, as well as software configurations at the Fabric OS and the
Management application level.
Configuring policy monitors enables you to perform the following:
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Policy monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951
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Preconfigured policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957
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Viewing policy monitor status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957
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Viewing existing policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958
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Adding a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959
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Policy monitor scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964
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Editing a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966
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Deleting a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
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Running a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
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Viewing a policy monitor report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969
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Viewing historical reports for all policy monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972
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Viewing historical reports for a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972
Provide selectable and configurable built-in rules to check for best practices
Schedule policies to run periodically
Run a policy manually (on demand)
Generate a report that will detail any issues found by the policy
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