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8 Click Apply Policy to Groups, and in the workspace, select one or more groups to which the policy
applies.
VMware vRealize Operations Manager monitors the objects according to the seings in the policy that
is applied to the object group, triggers alerts when thresholds are violated, and reports the results in the
dashboards, views, and reports. If you do not assign a policy to one or more object groups,
VMware vRealize Operations Manager does not assign the seings in that policy to any objects, and the
policy is not active. For an object group that dos not have a policy assigned,
VMware vRealize Operations Manager associates the object group with the Default Policy.
9 Click Save to retain the seings dened for your local policy.
What to do next
After vRealize Operations Manager analyzes and collects data from the objects in your environment, review
the data in the dashboards and views. If the data is not what you expected, edit your local policy to
customize and override the seings until the dashboards display the data that you need.
Policy Workspace in vRealize Operations Manager
The policy workspace allows you to quickly create and modify policies. To create a new policy, you can
inherit the seings from an existing policy, and you can modify the seings in existing policies if you have
adequate permissions. After you create a new policy, or edit an existing policy, you can apply the policy to
one or more groups of objects.
How the Policy Workspace Works
Every policy includes a set of packages, and uses the dened problems, symptoms, metrics, and properties
in those packages to apply to specic object groups in your environment. You can view details for the
seings inherited from the base policy, and display specic seings for certain object types. You can override
the seings of other policies, and include additional policy seings to apply to object types. For example, a
critical production policy includes seings to track use, available resources and the time remaining on them,
resource demands on the object group that determine how much stress is applied, and reclaimable capacity
amounts for CPU, disk I/O, and network I/O.
Use the Add and Edit options to create new policies and edit existing policies.
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bctid=ref:video_customize_policies_vrom)
Where You Create and Modify a Policy
To create and modify policies, click Administration, click Policies, click the Policy Library tab, and click the
plus sign to add a policy or click the pencil icon to edit a policy. The policy workspace is where you select
the base policies, and customize and override the seings for analysis, metrics, properties, alert denitions,
and symptom denitions. In this workspace, you can apply the policy to object groups.
To remove a policy from the list, select the policy and click the red X.
Policy Workspace Options
The policy workspace includes a step-by-step workow to create and edit a policy, and apply the policy to
custom object groups.
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