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Understanding the Policy Editor Layout

The Policy Editor window contains six main areas: title bar, menu bar, toolbar, navigation pane, content pane, and status bar (see Figure 19). The first five areas are the same ones described in SRC-PE Getting Started Guide, Chapter 43, Using SDX Admin.


Figure 19: Policy Editor Window Layout

The status bar at the bottom of the Policy Editor window gives you additional information about Policy Editor. For example, the status bar can indicate the IP address of the policy repository to which you are connected.

Using the Menu Bar

The menu bar allows you to execute commands related to each of the menus. See the following tables for information about each menu command.

Menu
Command
Choose To

File

New

Open another Policy Editor main window or open a Policy Editor configuration file.

Open

Open data source to get data into the GUI. You can open a connection to the directory host or open a file.

For LDAP, the system prompts you to enter the requested directory connection parameters. Then the connection is made.

For a file, you must choose a data file to be opened.

Close

Close the connection to the directory

or

Close the current file. The policy objects in Policy Editor are cleared.

NOTE: You receive a warning if you have not saved changes to the opened data source (directory or file).

Save

Save changes to the directory or file. If the file did not previously exist, it is created. If the file exists, its contents are replaced with policies in Policy Editor.

SaveAs

Save the policies in Policy Editor under a new file name. This in effect copies the policies to a new file.

Be sure to give different versions of an object a unique name to avoid object name conflicts.

Reload

Clear and reload policy objects in Policy Editor from the opened data source (directory or file).

You receive a warning if there are pending changes that you have not saved to the opened data source (directory or file).

Print

Print the file(s) you select.

Exit

Exit the application.

You receive a warning if there are pending changes that you have not saved to the opened data source (directory or file).

Menu
Command
Choose To

Edit

Undo

Cancel the most recent operation.

Redo

Reinstate the operation that you cancelled with Undo.

Cut

Cut the currently selected object.

Copy

Copy the currently selected object.

Paste

Paste the object copies from the cut or copy operation to the currently selected object.

Delete

Delete the currently selected object.

Menu
Command
Choose To

Tools

Filter

Change the search filter used for the directory (see Table 21).

Find

Find a specific instance of an object in Policy Editor.

Customize

Customize the application based on your preferences.

Query

Open the Router Query window. Use to find QoS profiles, policy groups, and routers.

Manage

Allows you to access the CLIs of JUNOSe routers and JUNOS routing platforms.


Menu
Command
Choose To

Help

About Policy Editor

View information about the Policy Editor software, including vendor name and software version.

Using the Toolbar

Table 17 shows the Policy Editor toolbar icons and the relationship between the icons and the menu commands. The toolbar icons exist in enabled and disabled modes. The mode depends on whether the operation is supported in the context of the selected object and on previous operations. For example, if no object was previously copied or cut, then Paste is disabled.




Table 17: Toolbar Functions  
Icon
Corresponding Menu

File > Reload

File > Save

Edit > Cut

Edit > Copy

Edit > Paste

Edit > Delete

Tools > Find

Tools > Filter


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