About policies

Policies are an advanced automation technique for implementing more complex workflow strategies than you can create through simple automation.

A policy is a set of automated system processes that can perform actions, schedule work for users, or automate manual tasks. You use the Workflow Editor to design policies. You control the order in which the policy executes a series of automated steps, which are also called activities. Policies are connected to create a workflow. After an activity is completed, Tivoli® Enterprise Portal receives return code feedback and advanced automation logic responds with subsequent activities prescribed by the feedback.

Important: For monitoring agents that provide predefined policies, predefined policies are not read-only. Do not edit these policies and save over them. Software updates will write over any of the changes that you make to these policies. Instead, clone the policies that you want to change to suit your enterprise.