).All assets in the SilverBack Managed Services Platform include Block and Override options. These options do not apply to assets themselves, but rather to Policy Components that affect them.
By enabling you to access these options from specific assets within the SilverBack user interface, SilverBack provides you with a built-in shortcut designed to speed your tasks and streamline your workflow.
You can block or override Policy Components to change a Monitoring Policy for a single asset, effectively excluding the asset from the target scope of the blocked or overridden Policy Component. Blocks and overrides are useful if you wish to make exceptions to well-defined Monitoring Policies.
For example, if some disks are typically 90% full, an 80% Threshold which should be applied to most of the disks would constantly fire for that small set. A block or an override would enable you to use the 80% Monitoring Policy across all your disks, but would block or override the Threshold value only for the smaller set of disks.
The Block option is used to prevent specific assets, or small groups of assets, from being influenced by specific Policy Components. When a block is established for a asset, the Policy Component is no longer in effect for that asset only. The Policy Component is not replaced.
The Override option is used to replace a Policy Component with values that are specific to the targeted asset. When an override is established for a asset, the original Policy Component is no longer in effect and is replaced by a new Policy Component, for that asset only.
In order to block or override a Policy Component:
You must have been granted the Block or Override privilege for the Policy Component type for which you want to block or override.
The Policy Component for which you want to override must be visible to your User account.
The target scope of the original Policy Component is not modified.
Any alerts or other persisted states generated by the blocked or overridden Policy Component are unaffected (e.g., Event Monitor counts).
Click on the asset for which you wish to block a Policy Component, then select the More > Referencing Policies > Policy Components option to display the Policy Components that target the selected asset.
Click on the Policy Component that you wish to block, then select the More > Block option.
The display refreshes to the Asset Report
for the selected asset, and indicates the block with the Block icon (
).
Click on the asset from which you wish to remove a block for a Policy Component, then select the More > Referencing Policies > Policy Components option to display the Policy Components Report that target the selected asset.
Click on the Policy Component for which you wish to remove the block, then select the More > Remove Block option.
The display refreshes to the Asset Report for the selected asset, and the Block icon no longer appears.
Click on the asset for which you wish to override a Policy Component, then select the More > Referencing Policies > Policy Components option to display the Policy Components that target the selected asset.
Click on the Policy Component that you wish to override, then select the More > Override option to display the Edit form for the selected Policy Component.
Follow the steps to Edit the Policy Component.
The display refreshes to the Asset Report
for the selected asset, and indicates the override with the Override icon
( 
).
Click on the asset from which you wish to remove an override for a Policy Component, then select the More > Referencing Policies > Policy Components option to display the Policy Components that target the selected asset.
Click on the Policy Component for which you wish to remove the override, then select the Remove Override option.
The display refreshes to the Asset Report for the selected asset, and the Override icon no longer appears.
