Policies

Policies help the administrators to focus on critical data when certain threshold values are exceeded or events occur. You can use policies to set alarms or warning and specify the actions to be taken when a policy is violated. For example, you can create a policy to raise an alarm when a duplicate network address found in the domain.

The Asset Management Policy System is based on user-defined queries and on predefined events.

Query Based Policies: Includes the policies based on a query that specifies which criteria must be met to invoke the policy. As the query checks only the delta values sent by agents, continuous querying of the database is not necessary. The query based policies are available under the Policies, Query Based folder.
Event Based policies: Includes the policies that are invoked when a specific event is triggered. Asset management provides a set of predefined event based policy categories. You cannot create or delete the policies under these categories. However, you can modify these policies for example, to add additional actions. The event based policies are available under the Policies, Event Based folder.