To Create a Policy

In this procedure, you will create a policy to be used later in jobs. Users of all levels can perform this procedure in the console. Other users see your policies as read-only. They can use or copy your policies; they cannot delete or edit them. This restriction applies to users of all levels.

1. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar, click the Policies button.

   • From the Tools menu, choose Policies.

     The Policies window opens.

2. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar on the Policies window, click the New button.

   • Right-click a blank space in the Policies window and choose New.

     The Policy Editor window opens.

     

3. Type a name for the policy.

4. From the drop-down list on the tool bar, select a distribution-architecture.

   The Components list shows the components of the selected distribution.

5. In the Components list, select a component, and for each action, set a policy for the selected component; do one of the following:

   • Select Ask Me, Yes, or No from the drop-down list of the action

   • Click the Ask Me, Yes, or No button for all actions.

     To make the policy applicable to hosts of different distributions:

     • To select specific components from different distributions, select from the drop-down list of distributions. Find components and add settings to the Actions list.

     • To let Sun Update Connection – Enterprise find components from other distributions that are comparable to the ones you have in the Actions list, click the Multi Distro button (see To Align Component Settings for Multiple Distributions).

6. Click OK.

   The Policy Editor window closes. The policy is created and appears in the Policies window.

Example 10–2 Creating a Policy in the CLI

The CLI command to create a policy allows for only one component-action and its setting. See Add Policy Attribute (-aca) Command.

#! /bin/bash

echo -n “Enter your user name:” 
read user 
echo -n “Enter your password:” 
read password echo -n “Enter a string to search for exact component name:” 
read comp2find 
uce_cli -fc -T $comp2find -u $user -p $password 
echo -n “Copy the exact component name that you want to add to a 
   policy:” 
read comp2use 
echo -n “Enter the name of a policy or create a new one:” 
read policyName 
echo “What action is relevant for this component?” 
echo “(install|downgrade|fix|remove|upgrade|ignore)” 
echo -n “Type the exact action, case-sensitive:” 
read action 
echo -n “Enter the setting (yes|no|ask_me) (case-sensitive):” 
read setting 
uce_cli -aca -C “$policyName” -T “$comp2use” -$action $setting -u “$user” -p 
   “$password”