Policy

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1 Overview

Policies are created and edited in an application. A policy is instructions for the monitoring of something from a computer. Policies are deployed to a node using groups.

2 Policy types

There are currently 14 different policy types. Each policy is targeted to monitor a different aspect of a server.

1. Command execution
2. Disk / Filesystem
3. Event
4. HTTP response
5. Log file
6. Ping response
7. Port availability
8. Process performance
9. Service status
10. SNMP policy
11. SNMP Trap recipient
12. Veloopti agent health
13. Windows performance library
14. CI Metric thresholds

3 Deploying a policy to a server

Policies are deployed to a server by adding it to a policy group. The policy group must also be linked to a node group that contains the server that the policy is to be deployed to.

One or more policies can be added to a policy group. A policy in a policy group is a member of the group. In order for the policies in the policy group to be deployed to the nodes in a node group the policy group must be linked to the node group. A policy group can be linked to one or more node groups. All nodes in the node group that have a policy group linked to it can have the policies deployed to them.

A policy group is located in an application and is not able to be linked to a node group outside of the application. A policy cannot be directly deployed to a node.