How Policies Work
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Policies are defined in the Policy Design Center, then deployed against specific device groups. As NetMRI collects configuration files, SNMP data, and other data from devices, it validates through policies deployed against devices for which configuration changes are detected.
Results of the policy-based analysis are listed in the Network Analysis > Policy Compliance tab.
Policy analysis results are also available in two reports:
The Policy Compliance Summary report provides an overview of the compliance status for all policies and the network devices against which they are deployed.
The Policy Compliance Details report lists all policies and policy rules, with the devices passing and failing, and the specific reasons for policy violations.
Although only the last running configuration collected from each network device is analyzed during routine policy checks, you can perform an ad hoc analysis of any archived configuration file (or even a future configuration file) for a device by using the test function at Config Management > Policy Design Center side tab > Policies.
When a configuration policy violation is detected during routine policy checks, an issue unique to that policy is generated. This issue lists all the devices that experienced policy failures and provides hyperlinks to open the Device Viewer for individual devices. The Config Files section in the Device Viewer will help you determine which configuration files are causing the failures.