Remediating Items That Violate Policies

After policy rules have been validated and the items that violate policy have been identified, you will need to review and remediate such items.

On the Policies→Summary page, you can get a summary about the compliance of your managed environment. Summaries about policy compliance can also be provided by reports (described in Generating and Obtaining Reports). You can also filter items according to policy violations in various management interfaces.

You can list all the items that break a certain policy from the policy-rules details panel. Then you can remediate those items according to the recommended action outlined for the policy. To do this via the Key Manager GUI:

1. On the Policies→Policy rules page, click a policy rule to display its details panel.

   Policy-rule information such as policy-rule severity, number of violating items, and possible impact from breaking the policy, may be used to determine the priority in which the policies should be reviewed.

2. In the details panel, you may refer to the Recommended action for information about how to remediate items breaking this policy. Then, display the items breaking this policy:

   • To display a list of all the authorized keys that violate this policy, click the number next to the Violating authorized keys in the details panel.

   • To display a list of all the private keys that violate this policy, click the number next to the Violating private keys in the details panel.

3. Perform actions on the violating items to remediate them. The Recommended action of the policy rule may provide some guidelines about what actions should be performed.