Chapter 4: Creating Policies And Rules; Introduction; Creating A New Policy; Creating A New Rule For A Policy - Extreme Networks Policy Manager User Manual

4 Creating Policies and Rules

Introduction

The Extreme Networks Policy Manager (EPM) is used by first creating a policy and then populating it
with ACL and CLEAR-Flow rules.
Policies and Rules can be created locally, tested and verified, and then pushed to a switch.
This chapter describes the following sections:
Creating a New Policy on page 37
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Creating a New Rule for a Policy on page 37
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Saving a Policy on page 39
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Validating and Checking a Policy on page 40
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Importing and Exporting Rules into a Policy on page 41
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Creating a New Policy

To create a new policy, use the following procedure.
1 From the Menu, choose Policy > New Policy or File > New or click the
Selection box opens.
2 From the Versions: panel, select either 02.00.00 or 03.00.00 and click OK. A new_policy.pol (localfile)
is displayed in the Tree Structure panel.
NOTE
The version 3 policy supports access control list (ACL) and CLEAR-Flow (CF) rules.
The version 2 policy supports access control list (ACL) rules only
3 Add one or more rules to the policy as described in the following sections.
NOTE
Rules must be added to a new policy before the policy can be saved.

Creating a New Rule for a Policy

To create a new rule, use the following procedure.
1 From the Menu, choose Rules > New Rule or click the
2 In the Rule Wizard box, make the following entries:
a In the Rule Name text box, type a name.
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icon. The Policy Version
icon. The Rule Wizard opens.
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