User guide

Description of the Windows and Menus
Extreme Networks Policy Manager (EPM) 1.2 User Guide
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Menu Bar
The Menu Bar consists of six standard menus—File, View, Policy, Rules, Tool s and Help. Table 5
describes the elements of these menus.
Table 5: EPM Standard Menus
Menu Components Description
File
New Begins the process to create a new policy. Refer to “Creating a New Policy”
on page 37.
Open Opens an existing policy file.
Switch Opens an existing policy file from a switch. Refer to “Opening a Policy File
from a Switch” on page 31.
Local Opens an existing policy file from a local file. Refer to “Opening a Policy File
Locally” on page 30.
Save Saves changes to an existing policy in the location (switch or local) in which
it was opened.
Save As Saves a new policy or saves changes to an existing policy to a different
location. Refer to “Creating a New Policy” on page 37.
Switch Saves to a switch.
Local Saves locally.
Import From Imports all rules from one policy into the current policy. Refer to “Importing
Rules” on page 41.
Export To Exports all rules from the current policy to populate a new policy or to
replace the existing rules in another policy. Refer to “Exporting Rules” on
page 42.
Exit Closes the EPM.
View Shows and hides certain panels in the window. When one or more is hidden,
the shown panels expand to fill the window.
Status Panel Shows and hides the Status Panel.
Rule Properties Panel Shows and hides the Rule Properties Panel.
Tool Bar Shows and hides the Tool Bar.
Policy Includes functions to create, modify and check a policy.
New Policy Begins the process to create a new policy. Refer to “Creating a New Policy”
on page 37.
Search Searches the current policy for specific rules. Refer to “Searching for Rules
in a Policy” on page 33.
Validate & Check Validates and checks a new or modified policy. Refer to “Validating and
Checking a Policy” on page 40.
Refresh Refreshes the currently loaded policy when it is activated on a switch after it
has been modified. Refer to “Applying Changes to an Activated Policy” on
page 47.
Activity Activates a policy stored on the switch, allowing control of the active VLANs
and active ports of the current policy. Refer to “Managing Policy Activity” on
page 50.
Recalculate rule ranks Recalculates the rule ranks when ACL and/or CLEAR-Flow rules have been
added to or deleted from the policy. Refer to “Organizing Rules” on page 49.
Reorder rules by rank Places rules in order by rule rank when they have been recalculated. Refer to
“Organizing Rules” on page 49.