About Policy Groups

Policy Groups are sets of rules against which managed entities are evaluated. Policy Groups can:

Represent industry-wide standards
Be used as a reference policy group or a certified policy group
Be a collection of rules describing best practices in an enterprise

These rules can be organized into a hierarchy using rule folders. See the following figure.

Shows hierarchy of rules and folders in a standard.

Oracle provides default sets of policy groups, for example, Secure Configuration for Oracle Database.

Benefits of Using Policy Groups

When you use a policy group to test the compliance of a managed entity, Enterprise Manager enables you to measure the compliance of the managed entity to a standard.

About Policy Groups

Benefits of Using Policy Groups

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