Policy Monitor Overview; In This Chapter - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c User Manual

Policy Monitor

In this chapter

Policy Monitor overview

Use this feature is 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, Network OS and the
Management application level.
Configuring policy monitors enables you to perform the following:
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The following sections provide more detailed information on the policy monitor type and rules.
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Policy Monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
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Viewing existing policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
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Adding a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828
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Editing a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
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Deleting a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
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Running a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
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Viewing a policy monitor report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
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Policy monitor scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839
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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Fabric policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824
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SAN Switch policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
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Host policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
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Management policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
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