Managing Policies
Policies are event triggers that
monitor the activity of the system. Policies respond to predefined events issued by changes
in the status or performance of specific
Automation Orchestrator
objects. Policies are a series of rules, gauges, thresholds, and
event filters that run certain workflows or scripts when specific predefined events
occur in
Automation Orchestrator
or in the
technologies that Automation Orchestrator
accesses through plug-ins. Automation Orchestrator
constantly evaluates the policy rules while the policy is
running. For instance, you can implement policy gauges and thresholds that monitor the
behavior of vCenter
objects of the VC:HostSystem
and VCirtualMachine
types.