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Policy Configuration

You can configure managed agents and apply the configuration to multiple systems in one operation using centralized remote deployment from the CA Server Automation user interface. Policy configuration lets you configure SystemEDGE and the SRM AIM in a centralized location and distribute the policy across the enterprise in a consistent, reliable, and secure manner.

Remote policy configuration using CA Server Automation provides the following benefits:

• The ability to create platform independent monitoring policies to use across monitoring platforms
• The ability to apply configuration policies to single servers or groups of servers
• The ability to create monitoring templates that you can combine into one policy
• An audit trail of configuration events and actions
• The ability to track policy compliance across the enterprise through events and reports
• Integration with the deployment solution, and, similar to deployment, only a minimal footprint on the target system
• Scalability to thousands of concurrent configurations
• Support for multiple agent configuration sources (CA Server Automation, CA NSM, SystemEDGE, and so on), and the ability to accept or reject changes through CA Server Automation
• The ability to remotely control the AIMs loaded by SystemEDGE
• The ability to import existing SystemEDGE configurations for use in future policy configuration
• Pick lists during configuration for many monitor definitions, eliminating the requirement of entering individual OID numbers
• Automatic monitor index assignment that eliminates the need to manually define indexes and avoids conflicts

More Information

How to Create SystemEDGE Policy

How to Create SRM Policy

Apply Policy to Machines

Review Policy Application Progress

Configure and View Applied Policies

Agent Policy Dashboard Views

Example: How to Monitor User-specific Metrics (MIB Extensions)

Example: How to Monitor a Specific Windows Performance Registry Metric