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Managing Policies 3

Policies are event triggers that monitor the activity of the system. Policies respond to predefined events issued

by changes in the status or performance of certain defined objects.

Policies are a series of rules, gauges, thresholds and event filters that run certain workflows or scripts when

specific predefined events occur in Orchestrator or in the technologies that Orchestrator accesses through plug-

ins. Orchestrator constantly evaluates the policy rules as long as the policy is running. For instance, you can

implement policy gauges and thresholds that monitor the behavior of vCenter Server objects of the

VC:HostSystem and VC:VirtualMachine types.

Orchestrator defines the following types of policy:

Policy Templates

Master policies. Policy templates are not linked to real objects. They are abstract

sets of rules that define the behavior to implement if a certain abstract event

occurs. You can see existing policy templates and create templates in the Policy

Templates view in the Orchestrator client.

Policies

Policies are instances of a template or standalone event triggers that are linked

to real objects, and that are triggered by real-life events. You can see existing

policies and create policies in the Policies view in the Orchestrator client.

You can organize policy templates into folders, for easier navigation.

This chapter includes the following topics:

“Create a Policy,” on page 23

“Apply a Policy,” on page 24

Create a Policy

You can create a policy to monitor the activity of the system for specific events.

Procedure

1 From the drop-down menu in the Orchestrator client, select Run.

2 Click the Policies view.

3 Right-click within the left pane and select Create new policy.

4 Type a name for the policy and click Ok.

The policy appears in the list of policies.

5 Right-click the policy and select Edit.

The policy editor opens.

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