Enforcing policies

When a service is tagged or a service tag changes, use this task to reevaluate the governing provisioning policies for the service.

Before you begin

Depending on how your system administrator customized your system, you might not have access to this task. To obtain access to this task or to have someone complete it for you, contact your system administrator.

Reconcile the new service before you enforce policies. Enforcing policies on a new service without reconciling first might cause enforcement errors.

Procedure

To schedule policy enforcement on a service, complete these steps:

  1. From the navigation tree, click Manage Services.
    The Select a Service page is displayed.
  2. On the Select a Service page, complete these steps:
    1. Type information about the service in the Search information field.
    2. In the Search by field, specify whether to search against services or business units.
    3. Select a service type from the Search type list.
    4. Select a status from the Status list, and then click Search.
      A list of services that matches the search criteria is displayed.
      If the table contains multiple pages, you can:
      • Click the arrow to go to the next page.
      • Type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.
  3. In the Services table, click the icon (Context menu icon) next to the service to show the tasks that you can do on that service.
  4. Click Enforce Policy.
    The tasks that you can do depend on the type of service.
    The Schedule page is displayed.
  5. Select either Immediate or Effective date to schedule the policy enforcement.
  6. Click Submit.

Results

A message indicates that you successfully submitted a request to enforce policy on the service.