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Enable Regionalized Policy Engine Lookup

You can tell the Policy Engine to only apply policy to an email if the sender is located in a specific region (user group). Regionalized Policy Engine Lookup introduces the %region% data lookup variable to the User Attribute Lookup family.

UserAttr WITH ANY %Sender% WHERE Wgn.GroupParent IS %region%

Follow these steps:

To enable this feature, create and set the registry key ‘PERegion’ on each regional Policy Engine:

SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA DataMinder\CurrentVersion\UserProcess

PERegion

Defines the region of the Policy Engine as a user group. Verify that all users in this region are in a single user group hierarchy.

Data Type: REG_SZ

Values: The syntax is same as the <Text> data lookup variable. Enclose search terms in {"double quotes with curly braces"}.

Example:

The administrator sets up "UK", "US," and "HK" user groups, and defines the PERegion key value of his three regional Policy Engines as follows:

PERegion {"UK"}
PERegion {"HK"}
PERegion {"US"}

The administrator uses the following lookup command:

UserAttr WITH ANY %Sender% WHERE Wgn.GroupParent IS %region%

In the following example, the sender is located in the UK:

1. If the %sender% group parent is that of Policy Engine region, and the sender belongs the user group “UK”, then the lookup command returns TRUE.

   The CMS puts this one copy of the event into the database.

2. All other regional Policy Engines have different values for PERegion.

   The data lookup command returns FALSE and policy is not applied.

3. The iConsole shows one event.

Without Regionalized Policy Engine Lookup, the iConsole displays multiple events (one for each PE), and applies the same policy to senders in all regions.

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