•Backup policies - Monitors the backup of your network. For example, polices can be created to notify you if a backup failed on a backup client.

•Infrastructure policies - Monitors the following:

•A new element is discovered

•Successful provisioning occurred

•An event occurred on one or more specified elements

Accessing Policy Manager

This topic provides the various techniques for accessing Policy Manager. You have only one way to access policies for discovery, provisioning, and events; however, you have multiple ways to access policies. The flexibility in accessing utilization policies lets you easily create and manage policies without interrupting your work flow.

Policy Manager provides the following options for accessing policies:

•To access from System Manager - Double-click an element in System Manager and then click the Policies tab. This method displays the utilization policies for just the element that was double-clicked.

•To access policies for file servers - Access the Policy tab in Application Viewer. Expand the Applications and File Servers nodes in the tree in Application Viewer. Click the file server name in the Application Viewer tree. Click the Policies tab in the right pane.

•To access policies for backup elements - Select one of the following elements in Backup Manager, and then click Policies in the lower-right corner:

•Backup Clients

•Backup Library

•Master backup server

•Master backup media

To access all policies in Policy Manager:

1.Click Tools > Storage Essentials > Policy Manager or click Tools > Storage Essentials > Home. Then, click Policy Manager in the left pane.

2.Click a policy in the Policy Manager tree.

Creating Policies

This section describes the following:

•”Creating a Utilization or Backup Policy” on page 533

•”Creating Policies for Discovery” on page 536

•”Creating Policies for Provisioning” on page 538

•”Creating Policies for Events” on page 539

•”Testing a Utilization Policy” on page 542

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