Managing policies

You can view policy information, edit policy properties, or delete a policy if you do not want to use it for protecting data anymore.

Consideration

You cannot delete the exclude policy.

To access the Policies panel, in the navigation pane, click  Policies. Alternatively, in the Dashboard panel, click the Policies widget title.

Viewing policy information

You can view information about each policy in the list of policies in the Policies panel.

Property name Description
Name Policy name.
Compliance

Compliance status of the policy:

  • The icon: The policy is compliant.

  • The icon: The policy is non-compliant.

  • The icon: Policy compliance is undefined. The policy is not assigned to any instance, application, or bucket, or this is the exclude policy.
Instance Count Number of the instances that have the policy assigned to them.
Application Count Number of the applications that have the policy assigned to them.
Bucket Count Number of the buckets that have the policy assigned to them.
Description Description of the policy.

n Note  To open the Details section where you can find more details about the policy, click the desired policy.

t Tip  To minimize the Details section, click Minimize or press the Spacebar. To return it to its original size, click Maximize or press the Spacebar.

Creating a policy

See “Creating custom policies”.

Editing a policy

Procedure

  1. In the Policies panel, select the policy that you want to edit, and then click  Edit. The Edit Policy dialog box appears.

  2. Edit the selected policy as required. For details about policy properties, see “Creating custom policies”.

  3. Click Save.

Deleting a policy

Procedure

  1. In the Policies panel, select the policy that you want to delete, and then click  Delete.

  2. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the selected policy.