IBM Domino Administrator 9.0.1 Social Edition Help

CONFIGURING

Using the policy viewer
You use the policy viewer to view the relationships of policies and policy settings documents in a policy hierarchy. You can view policies in either the By Settings view or in the By Policies view.

Procedure

1. From the Domino® Administrator, click the Configuration tab.

2. Open the Policies view, and then select the view.

3. Choose how you want to view policies:

By Settings
By Hierarchy

4. Complete any of the following tasks, depending on the view you selected:

Table 1. Tasks available in the By Settings view

Task	Action
View a list of all policy settings documents in your domain	Expand the functional areas in the first pane.
View a list of all policies that use a policy settings document (display in the second pane)	1. In the first pane, select a policy settings document. 2. View the policies that use that policy settings document display in the second pane.
View and edit a policy settings document	1. Select a policy settings document in the first pane. 2. The selected policy settings document displays in last pane. Double-click the document to edit it.
View the effective policy settings for a functional area (displays in the last pane)	1. Select a policy settings document in the first pane. 2. Select a policy document that uses those settings in the second pane. 3. View the effective policy in the last pane.

Table 2. Tasks available in the By Hierarchy view

Task Action

View the policy hierarchy for the a domain 1. In the field Show policy hierarchy for, select a domain.
2. View the domain's policy hierarchy in the first pane.

View the policy hierarchy for a Notes® user 1. In the field Show policy hierarchy for, select Specific User, and then select the name of a Notes user.
2. View the policy hierarchy for the user in the first pane

View the settings documents used by each policy 1. Select a policy in the first pane.
2. View the policy settings documents used by the selected policy in the second pane.

View the differences between the effective policy and the policy settings for a policy settings document 1. In the second pane, selects a policy settings document and make any changes to the settings.
2. In the last pane choose one of the Show options to view either the effective policy settings or the actual policy settings document.

Related concepts
Viewing policy relationships

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Task	Action
View the policy hierarchy for the a domain	1. In the field Show policy hierarchy for, select a domain. 2. View the domain's policy hierarchy in the first pane.
View the policy hierarchy for a Notes® user	1. In the field Show policy hierarchy for, select Specific User, and then select the name of a Notes user. 2. View the policy hierarchy for the user in the first pane
View the settings documents used by each policy	1. Select a policy in the first pane. 2. View the policy settings documents used by the selected policy in the second pane.
View the differences between the effective policy and the policy settings for a policy settings document	1. In the second pane, selects a policy settings document and make any changes to the settings. 2. In the last pane choose one of the Show options to view either the effective policy settings or the actual policy settings document.