Extreme Networks Policy Manager (EPM) 1.2 User Guide
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Creating Policies and Rules
Introduction
The Extreme Networks Policy Manager (EPM) is used by first creating a policy and then populating it
with ACL and CLEAR-Flow rules.
Policies and Rules can be created locally, tested and verified, and then pushed to a switch.
This chapter describes the following sections:
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Creating a New Policy on page 37
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Creating a New Rule for a Policy on page 37
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Saving a Policy on page 39
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Validating and Checking a Policy on page 40
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Importing and Exporting Rules into a Policy on page 41
Creating a New Policy
To create a new policy, use the following procedure.
1
From the Menu, choose
Policy
>
New
Policy
or
File > New
or click the
icon. The
Policy
Version
Selection
box opens.
2
From the
Versions
: panel, select either
02.00.00
or
03.00.00
and click
OK
. A new_policy.pol (localfile)
is displayed in the
Tree
Structure
panel.
NOTE
The version 3 policy supports access control list (ACL) and CLEAR-Flow (CF) rules.
The version 2 policy supports access control list (ACL) rules only
3
Add one or more rules to the policy as described in the following sections.
NOTE
Rules must be added to a new policy before the policy can be saved.
Creating a New Rule for a Policy
To create a new rule, use the following procedure.
1
From the Menu, choose
Rules
>
New
Rule
or click the
icon. The
Rule
Wizard
opens.
2
In the
Rule
Wizard
box, make the following entries:
a
In the
Rule
Name
text box, type a name.
