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Assign and Unassign Nodes to Policies

To create recovery point snapshots, you assign virtual standby conversion policies to the CA ARCserve D2D nodes that you want to protect.

Virtual Standby lets you unassign nodes from policies. Virtual Standby does not let you assign multiple policies to nodes. When you want to assign nodes to new policies, you unassign the current policy from the nodes before you can assign the new policy to nodes.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the virtual standby server and open Virtual Standby.

   From the Navigation bar on the home page, click Policies to open the Policies screen.

2. From the Policies list, click the policy that you want to assign or unassign nodes.

   Detailed information about the specified policy appears in the Policy Details tab and the Policy Assignment tab.

3. Click the Policy Details tab to view detailed information about the policy.

   (Optional) Click Edit on the toolbar to edit the current settings for the policy.

   Note: For more information, see Edit Policies.

4. Click the Policy Assignment tab.

   Click Assign and Unassign on the Policy Assignment tab.

   The Assign/Unassign Policy dialog opens.

5. Specify the following fields from the Assign/Unassign Policy dialog:
   • Group--Select the group name containing the policy that you want to assign.
   • Node Name Filter--Lets you filter the available nodes based on common criteria.

   Note: The Filter fields support the use of wildcard characters.

   Examples:

   • Acc* lets you filter all nodes having a node name that begins with Acc.
   • *.123 lets you filter all nodes having .123 in the IP Address.

   Note: To clear the filter results, click X in the Filter field.

6. Do one of the following actions:
   • Assign a node--From the Available Nodes list, locate the node that you want to assign to the policy.

     Click the single right arrow.

     The node moves from the Available Nodes list to the Selected Nodes list.

   • Assign nodes--From the Available Nodes list, click the double right arrow.

     All nodes move from the Available Nodes list to the Selected Nodes list.

   • Unassign a node--From the Selected Nodes list, locate the node that you want to unassign from to the policy.

     Click the single left arrow.

     The node moves from the Selected Nodes list to the Available Nodes list.

   • Unassign nodes--From the Selected Nodes list, click the double left arrow.

     All nodes move from the Selected Nodes list to the Available Nodes list.

   Click OK.

The nodes are assigned/unassigned from the policy.