Importing And Exporting Rules Into A Policy; Importing Rules - Extreme Networks Policy Manager User Manual

Importing and Exporting Rules into a Policy

The same rule can be included in various different policies. The EPM provides the capability to import
rules into the current policy from another policy or export them to another policy from the current
policy. This section explains those procedures.
Use the import function when rules are to be added from one policy to the rules in the current policy.
Use the export function when selected rules in the current policy are to replace the rules in another
existing policy or when a new policy is to be created and populated with selected rules in the current
policy.

Importing Rules

Rules imported from another policy (source) into the currently open policy (target) are merged or added
to the rules already in the existing policy.
To import rules into a policy, use the following procedure.
1 Open the target policy into which rules are to be imported.
2 From the Menu, choose File > Import From... > Policy File. The Open box displays the policies from
which rules can be imported.
3 Select the source policy and click Open. The Rule Merge Assistant box opens as shown below.
When the rule is unique and valid, the EPM proceeds to import the rule.
When the EPM finds a problem importing a specific rule such as finding one that is common to both
policies, it prompts the user as shown in the above figure and suggests appropriate action.
4 Click the Use custom prefix for inserted rules box to add a prefix to the imported rules. Dup_ is the
default prefix but another can be used.
When the rule is of a different policy version, the EPM prompts the user as follows:
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