Brocade Network Advisor IP User Manual 1099
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Chapter
36
Policy Monitor
In this chapter
•Policy monitor overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
•Preconfigured policy monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105
•Viewing policy monitor status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106
•Viewing existing policy monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107
•Adding a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108
•Policy monitor scheduling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113
•Editing a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115
•Deleting a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115
•Configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116
•Running a policy monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135
•Viewing a policy monitor report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136
•Viewing historical reports for all policy monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139
•Viewing historical reports for a policy monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139
Policy monitor overview
Use the Policy Monitor feature to provide best practice guidelines for network setup at the fabric,
switch, port, and device level, as well as software configurations at the Fabric OS, Ironware,
Network OS, and the Management application level.
Configuring policy monitors enables you to perform the following:
• Provide selectable and configurable built-in rules to check for best practices
• Schedule policies to run periodically
• Run a policy manually (on demand)
• Generate a report that will detail any issues found by the policy