Policies

The Policies page provides a unified space for administrators to define and manage rules from a single page and apply them to more than one network or application at the same time. The task of blocking application access and wireless network availability schedules are managed as policies. You can create a maximum of 32 policies for an Instant On site. If more than once policy is created and activated, the policy with the higher priority will be applied first on the site. If there are many rules about the same element, the rule with the highest priority is applied and the remaining policies are discarded, using the smallest common factor:

  • A category for an application policy.
  • A network for a network schedule policy.

Overview

The Policies > Overview section displays the list of policies created for the site, in order of their highest to lowest priority. The policy details are categorized under the following fields:

Table 1: Policy Details

Field

Description

Priority

Denotes the order in which the policies are to be executed. The policy list is displayed in decreasing order of its priority, number 1 being the highest.

Policy

Denotes the set of rules created to govern the applications usage and networks schedule.

Action

Denotes the action to be performed by the policy:

  • Activate—Makes an entity type available or active.
  • Deactivate—Makes an entity type unavailable or inactive
  • Allow—Allows an entity type.
  • Block—Blocks an entity type.

Rule

Defines the action that needs to be carried out by the policy.

Schedule

Denotes the time and duration for which the policy needs to take effect on the entity.

State

Denotes the current state of the policy.

Type

Denotes the policy type. The available types are Network activation and Application Access.

Reorder Priority

The list of policies are displayed in order of their highest to lowest priority. To change the order of the priority, follow these steps:

  1. Under Policies > Overview, click the Reorder button.
  2. Use the and icons displayed under the Schedule field, to reorder the priorities for the policies.
  3. Click Update.

Deleting a Policy

  1. Click the Policies tile on the Instant On web application home page, or click Policies from the navigation pane on the left.
  2. Under Policies > Overview, hover the cursor over the network you want to delete, click the button, and select Delete from the drop-down list.
  3. Click Delete Policy from the popup window.