Lotus Domino Administrator 8 Help - Viewing policy relationships

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Viewing policy relationships
The policy viewer is a convenient tool you can use to view each policy, the settings associated with each policy, and how they relate to each other. The policy viewer is also versatile because of the number of ways in which you can view policy documents. For example, you can view the settings for each policy, the settings by functional area, or the settings assigned to a specific users. You can also view effective policies on different levels in the policy hierarchy, which helps you to understand the impact of changing a policy setting. You can view policy documents using one of two views, By Hierarchy and By Settings.

How to use the policy viewer

The policy viewer has three panes. Depending on your selection in the top left pane, the results in the right top pane differ. The bottom pane always shows either an actual policy settings document or an effective policy settings document, based on your selections in the top two panes. You can edit a policy settings document in the policy viewer. You cannot edit an effective policy because the settings are derived settings.

Example of using the By Settings view

The administrator at the Acme company wants to use the policy viewer to:

View all policy settings documents in a domain
View all policies that use a selected policy settings document
View and edit a policy settings document
View the effective policy settings

To view this information the administrator performs these tasks:

Selects the By Settings view in the policy viewer and looks in the upper left pane to view all policy settings documents, grouped by administrative area.
Selects one of the policy settings in the upper left pane. All policies that use that policy settings document display in the upper right pane. The actual policy settings document displays in the bottom pane, where it can be edited.
In the top right pane, selects one of the policies. The effective policy settings display in the bottom pane. These cannot be edited.

Example of using the By Hierarchy view

The administrator at the Acme company wants to use the policy viewer to:

View the policy hierarchy for the Acme domain
View the policy hierarchy for an IBM® Lotus® Notes® user in the Acme domain
View the settings documents used by each policy
View the differences between the effective policy and the policy settings for a policy settings document

To view this information the administrator performs these tasks:

Selects the By Hierarchy view in the policy viewer and in the field "Show policy hierarchy for," selects Acme domain. Looks in the upper left pane to view the policy hierarchy.
In the field "Show policy hierarchy for," selects "Specific User," and then selects the name of a user to view the user's policy hierarchy in the upper left pane.
Selects a policy in the left pane to view the policy settings documents used by the selected policy in the upper right pane.
In the top right pane, selects one of the policy settings documents. The administrator can switch from the effective policy settings to the actual policy settings document in the bottom pane.
To see how changing a policy setting affects the effective policy, the administrator can edit the policy settings document and then switch views in the bottom pane.

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