•successful provisioning

•the occurrance of an event on one or more specified elements

Accessing Policy Manager

This section describes the various techniques for accessing Policy Manager. Although there is only one way to access policies for discovery, provisioning, and events; there are multiple ways to access policies. This 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 policies 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, and then click Policy Manager in the left pane.

2.Click a policy in the Policy Manager tree.

Creating Policies

This section contains the following topics:

•Actions Available for When a Policy Condition is Fulfilled, page 372

•Creating a Utilization or Backup Policy, page 373

•Creating Policies for Discovery, page 377

•Creating Policies for Provisioning, page 378

•Creating Policies for Events, page 379

•Testing a Utilization Policy, page 380

Actions Available for When a Policy Condition is Fulfilled

When you create or modify a policy, you must select an action to occur when the policy condition is fulfilled. More than one action can be assigned to a policy. The following actions are available:

372 Managing Policies