Policy Server Guides › Policy Design Guide › Global Policies, Rules, and Responses Dialogs Reference › Global Rule Dialog › Global Rule Dialog Fields and Controls › Resource Group Box

Resource Group Box

The Resource group box is where you select the resources to which this global rule will apply.

Agent field

Name of the agent or agent group for which the global rule should apply.

Lookup button

Opens the Set Agent/Group Dialog from which you pick an agent or agent group from a list of all such existing objects or search for one by name.

If you specify an agent group, in a global rule, and you have also configured domain-specific rules associated with the same resource, you can adversely affect system performance by effectively duplicating processing steps. When configuring global rules and global policies, be sure to consider domain-specific rules that may duplicate the responses generated by global rules. Note that in such cases, only one response is returned to the agent, since the Policy Server automatically deletes duplicate responses before passing information back to a requesting Agent.

Resource Filter field

Specifies the path for the resource filter that will determine the resources affected by the global rule. This field functions as a root for locating resources.

Perform regular expression pattern matching check box

Specifies that a resource can be a specific file or an expression that uses resource matching with regular expressions.

More information:

Resource Matching and Regular Expressions