Defining business criticality rules

A business criticality rule uses a rule token, which becomes the business criticality value for those resources to which the rule is applied.

About this task

A token can be constructed from resource parameters using variable substitution, which allows you to combine more than one property value if required. Only one token should be specified.

A business criticality rule populates the businessCriticality property of resources matched by the rule.

Procedure

  1. On the Rules administration page, select the Business criticality rules tab.

  2. Complete the Details section by defining the name, status, and single token for the rule.

    a. Enter a name, which must be unique within the context of the tenant.

    You cannot change the name of an existing rule. If you want a rule to have a different name, create a new rule, then delete the old one.

    b. Toggle the rule status to be either Enabled or Disabled.

    When observer jobs are run, they apply only the rules that are in an enabled state.

    c. Define a token for the rule, then click Add+.

    The single token specified as part of a rule becomes the business criticality value for those resources to which the rule is applied.

  3. Complete the Conditions section by selecting the observers, provider, and resource type for the rule, and by setting the token include / exclude switch.

    a. Select observers to which this rule applies from the Observer name drop-down. Leave empty to apply the rule to all observers.

    b. Select providers to which this rule applies from the Provider name drop-down. Leave empty to apply the rule to all providers.

    c. Select resource types to which this rule applies from the Resource type drop-down. Leave empty to apply the rule to all resource types.

    d. Set the Resource filter mode to either Exclude or Include, then define a filter by specifying a property. You can add more than one property as a filter.

    • Exclude: Resources with properties that match any of these filters will not have the rule applied to them.
    • Include: Only resources with properties that match any of these filters will have the rule applied to them.

    e. Set the Token filter mode to either Exclude or Include, then define a filter in the format of a regular expression. You can set more than one filter.

    • Exclude: Tokens which match any one of the expressions will not be applied to resources.
    • Include: Only tokens which match one of the expressions will be applied to the applicable resources.

  4. Validate your filters using the Validate token filters button.

  5. Click Save.