A General Approach to Policy Development

Developing Policies is straightforward. In the Config Management > Policy Design Center tab, you can take the following broad steps to create and use Policies:

1. In the Rules tab, create rules and assign device filters. You can also test rules in this tab.

2. In the Policies tab, create the policy by selecting rules and assigning device filters. You can also test the policy in this tab.

3. In the Policy Deployment tab, choose the device groups to run the policy against.

4. After NetMRI performs the analysis, you can view the results in the Network Analysis > Policy Compliance tab. After a policy is deployed it will take five to ten minutes to begin seeing results in this tab. You can also review results in the Policy Compliance Summary and Policy Compliance Details reports.

The following sections describe further details about policy development.