Policy Evaluation

Policy evaluation determines when and how the policy will be triggered.

Query based policies get evaluated in the following situations:

Manually—you can right-click a policy and select Evaluate Now.
Automatically—you can specify the evaluation option in Evaluation section of the Policy Designer dialog. You can either evaluate the policy when the collect task processing is done or designate the engine to perform the policy evaluation at the specified interval.

Event based policies get evaluated whenever the specified event occurs.

Note: For more information about Policy Designer dialog, see the Asset Management section of the DSM Explorer Help.