Policy Management

Demos
Add new Monitor Policy  
Export/Import Policies  

Two major concepts of the boom Infrastructure are managed inside the Policy Management:

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Filter on Name

	Specify the full policy name or a part of the name. 

Policy tree folder "_Lost and Found"

The server job Find_Lost_Policies detects lost policies and adds them to the policy tree folder _Lost and Found. e.g. If the server job detects a policy which is not known in his policyGroups.xml file then the policy will be added to the _Lost and Found folder. An user can decide whether the policy should be deleted or copied to another folder.

All existing Policies are displayed in form of a tree hierarchy. Double-click on a single Policy to open the appropriate Policy details.

All available actions are located in the context menu. Right-click on a Policy Group or a single Policy to open the appropriate context menu:

Context menu on Policy Group level:		Context menu on Policy level:

Import Policies:	This function is used to import boom Policies into the boom Server. For the Policy import a xml formatted file called policyGroups.xml is needed. This file must be selected as a source during the import process. The xml formatted file contains a list of all the Policies that have to be imported.
Import Other:	Import of a single Policy from other vendors.
Export Policies:	Export the Policy tree to a specified location.
Add Group:	Create a new Policy Group (tree folder).
Rename Group:	Rename a Policy Group.
Delete Group Recursive:	The selected Policy Group will be completely removed. That means all Policies and all subfolders inside the Policy Group will be deleted.
Delete Group:	This will delete the selected Policy Group, but it will also move the complete content to the Policy Group (toplevel folder).
Open Policy:	This will open the appropriate Policy details in the Policy Details View.
Add New Monitor Policy:	A new Monitor Policy tab will be opened. Please note: You have to save the Policy before you can deploy it. After the Policy has saved, the policy name cannot be changed any more. If you need to change a name, you have to use the "Copy and Rename Policies". Play Video:
Add New Indication Policy:	A new Indication Policy tab will be opened. Please note: You have to save the Policy before you can deploy it. After the Policy has saved the first time, the Policy name cannot be changed any more. If you need to change a Policy name, you have to use the function "Copy and Rename Policies".
Duplicate Policy:	The duplicate Policy function is used to duplicate a single Policy within the same policy group. The duplication of multiple Policies is described in 4.1.8 Copy and Rename Policies. Please note: The Policy name is unique and therefore it is not possible to have multiple Policies with the same name. If you duplicate a Policy you must provide a new unique name to the policy.
Cut/ Copy/ Paste:	Copy/Paste gives you the possibility to copy a single policy within the same policy group or to another policy group. Cut/Paste allows you to move a single or multiple policies to another policy group.
Search Policy:	Opens a policy search view with a "Global Search" and an "Advanced search" utility.
Copy And Rename Policies:	Copy or rename a single or multiple Policies. For more details see the paragraph Copy/Rename Policies below
Delete Policy:	A single Policy or multiple Policies can be selected and deleted.
Show Indications:	This will open a new Indication Tab displaying all active Indications for the selected Policy.
Show Related Agents/Assignments:	This shows general Policy information like Type, Version, Group, .... and a list of Agents and Assignments on which this Policy is deployed on.
Deploy on:	Allows to deploy the selected Policies to one or more boom Agents. It also starts necessary monitor tasks. During the deployment process you have to select the Agents where the selected policies should be deployed. For more information see the paragraph Deploy on/Undeploy from below.
Redeploy to all:	Allows to trigger re-deployment of the selected Policies to all boom Agents where they were previously deployed.
Undeploy from:	Triggers the removing of the selected policies (and also stops monitor task) from the selected boom Agents. During the undeployment process you have to select the Agents from where the selected policies should be undeployed. For more information see the paragraph Deploy on/Undeploy from below. Hint: If the policy was deployed as part of an assignment group it must be undeployed together with the assignment or unlinked from the assignment group first.
Undeploy from all:	Triggers the removing of the selected Policies from all boom Agents where they were previously deployed. Hint: If the policy was deployed as part of an assignment group it must be undeployed together with the assignment or unlinked from the assignment group first.
Mark as Deployed on:
Enqueue Deployment on ... Enqueue ReDeployment to all Enqueue UnDeployment from... Enqueue UnDeployment from all	All "Enqueue Deployment" actions will be added to the Deployment Queue and must be triggered manually! This actions will NOT be started automatically! For more details about the Deployment Queue see the Chapter Assignment Summary.

During the deployment/undeployment process you need to select the boom Agents where you want to deploy/undeploy the polices. A filter function inside the Deployment Dialog helps to find the appropriate Agents. Just enter some letters that matches with the boom Agents you need for the deployment process and press the Apply button. To remove an existing filter from the tree you have to clean the filter input field and press the Apply button.

To rename one or multiple Policies you have to select all the Policies you want to copy/rename. If you select a Policy Group all Policies inside this Group and inside all subgroups will be processed. If you select a single Policy only this Policy will be processed. In the Copy and Renaming Dialog you will see a list of all Policies that you have selected:

Renaming Options:

Preview: Any changes to the Prefix/Suffix or the Find/Replace field will reflect directly in the Preview Table. To exclude one or more Policies from the renaming process, select them in the Preview table and remove them from the Preview Table by pressing the button "Remove line(s)".

Naming Conflicts: Changes to the Prefix/Suffix or the Find/Replace field also triggers automatic validation of the Policy names. Naming conflicts are indicated in the Preview Table. To remove naming conflicts you can either change your renaming parameters or you can click on the button "Remove Conflicts" button. If you click on the button, all Policies with conflicts will be deleted from the Preview Table and excluded from the copying/renaming process.

Copy Policies and save them to a different Group: If you want to save the renamed Policies to a different location, you have to enable the section "Enable Copying to a different Group". All original Policies remain unchanged and the renamed Policies will be saved to the selected Group. If you need to add a new folder inside the Policy Tree, you can create the folder using the tree context menu.

Every change that is made to a Policy will increase the Policy version. To compare the current Policy with an older version select the version you want to compare with and press the "compare" button. This opens the Policy Compare Dialog:

There are two alternative ways to find the wanted policy names

Use Global Search to search through all main attributes and condition attributes of a policy.
Specify the full attribute name or a part of the name.

Use Advanced Search to either search through all Main Properties (select Policy Name or Main Attributes: all attributes without condition attributes)

One of the main tasks during creation of a new Indication Policy is defining of a regular expression used for filtering and parsing incoming messages. The boom GUI has powerful validation tool integrated.