Creating a Virtual Policy Table

To create a virtual policy table:

  1. From the Policy Management section of the navigation pane, select Policy Table Library.

    The content tree displays the All Tables group.

  2. Select the Virtual Policy Tables sub-group.

    The Virtual Policy Table Administration page opens in the work area.

  3. Click Create Virtual Policy Table.

    The Virtual Policy Table Administration page opens.

  4. Enter information as appropriate:
    1. Name (required) — The name you assign to the virtual policy table.

      The name can only contain the characters A–Z, a–z, 0–9, period (.), hyphen (-), and underline (_). The maximum length is 255 characters. The name must not match any existing policy table or virtual policy table names.

    2. Default Policy Table (required) — The policy table to which the virtual policy table points by default.
    3. Description/Location — Free-form text that identifies the virtual policy table.
  5. (Optional) To associate the virtual policy table with a configuration template, click Add.

    The Add Virtual Policy Table Association dialog box appears.

  6. Select a configuration template and a policy table from the list.

    Associated policy table columns must have the same name and type as those in the default policy table.

  7. Click Save.

    The configuration template is associated with the virtual policy table.

  8. Click Save.
The virtual policy table is created. You can now use the virtual policy table to deploy policy tables to specific MPE devices. If the default and associated policy tables contain different keys, delimiters, or matching operations, a notification message listing the differences is displayed.

When the virtual policy table is created, it is added to the CMP database and pushed to all MPE devices. If the virtual policy table does not have an associated configuration template or if the associated configuration template is not associated with an MPE, the default policy table data for the virtual policy table is pushed to all MPE devices. If there is an associated configuration template and the template is associated with MPE devices, policy table data is pushed to MPE devices as specified in the configuration template.