Setting default policies

You can select one of the predefined or custom policies to be the default policy for your data protection environment. When you set the default policy, depending on your choice, the default policy will be assigned to one of the following:

• Only newly discovered resources.

• Both newly discovered resources and all existing resources that do not have an assigned policy yet.

Consideration

Setting a default policy is overridden by assigning policies automatically. For more information, see “Setting up automatic policy assignment”.

Procedure

1. In the Policies panel, select the policy that you want to set as the default one, and then click  Set Default. The Set Default Policy dialog box opens.

2. Depending on the resources to which you want the default policy to be assigned, select one or more check boxes:

   • Instances
   • Applications
   • Buckets

   The default policy will be assigned to all newly discovered resources.

3. Enable the Assign to resources without policy switch if you want the default policy to be assigned also to all selected resources that do not have an assigned policy yet.
4. Click Save.

The default policy is represented by the  icon. If you later decide not to use this policy as the default one, click  Clear Default. Keep in mind that by doing so, you do not unassign this policy from the resources to which it was assigned.