Policy

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1 Overview

A policy is an instructions for the monitoring of a server for an event that could lead to loss of, or disruption to, an organisation's operations, services or functions. The server should have a Veloopti agent running on it. Policies are deployed to a server that then run on a predefined schedule. This can be anything from once per minute to once per year.

After entering an application use the breadcrumb navigator to select the policies selection to see either a list of policies or the policy groups that are contained in the application. Use the

Policies are created and edited in an application. A policy is represented in Veloopti by the policy icon

A policy is unique to an application and may only be deployed to servers that reside in the application. In order for a policy to be deployed it must be inside a policy group and the policy group must then be linked to a node group that contains the node(s).

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 policy runs an executable or script on a server and returns the result
2. Disk / Filesystem monitors the used space and free space for a file system
3. Event intercepts an event sent using veloopti-event.exe on the agent and inspect it for a match
4. HTTP response monitors a webpage for key performance metrics
5. Log file watches a log file for text matches or file size
6. Ping response ping a host and inspect the return results
7. Port availability watches the local or a remote host for the availability of a port
8. Process performance watches a local process for key metrics
9. Service status watches a local service for service state changes
10. SNMP policy polls a SNMP device
11. SNMP Trap recipient inspects a received SNMP trap
12. Veloopti agent health monitors a Veloopti agent to see whether it is connected or not
13. Windows performance library inspects the Windows Performance Library and returns the result
14. CI Metric thresholds evaluates against metrics that are collected in the OS Application

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.