User Guide

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Chapter 7: Establishing a Security Policy
Assigning the Policy a Name
To define a user policy, begin by assigning a name to a policy using the Global
Configuration command:
policy user name
For example, the following statement defines a policy for the Finance group called
finance_policy.
(SafeGuardOS) (config) # policy user finance_policy
(SafeGuardOS) (policy-user) #
After defining the policy name, the system goes into user policy mode.
To display the contents of a user policy, use the show policy user command. This
command is discussed further in Showing Policy User on page 332.
Adding a Description
An optional description of the user policy can be added in double quotation marks with
the following command:
description string
Building on our previous example, a description might be:
(SafeGuardOS) (config) # policy user finance_policy
(SafeGuardOS) (policy-user) # description “Policy for finance users and
resources”
(SafeGuardOS) (policy-user) #
Adding a Severity
If you specify a severity, it dictates the color that the message displays in OmniVista
SafeGuard Manager. Add an optional severity of the user policy with the
severity
command:
severity [critical | info | major | minor]
Syntax Description name A name that identifies the policy.
Syntax Description string A description of the policy. Place the string
within double quotation marks.
Syntax Description critical Indicates a critical severity and the message
displays in red.