Policy-based management is an administrative approach that is
used to simplify the management of a given endeavor by
establishing policies to deal with situations that are likely to
occur. Policies are operating rules that can be referred to as a
way to maintain order, security, consistency, or otherwise furth
a goal or mission. For example, a town council might have a
policy against hiring the relatives of council members for civic
positions. Each time that situation arises, council members can
refer to the policy, rather than having to make decisions on a
case-by-case basis. In the computing world, policy-based
management is used as an administrative tool throughout an
enterprise or network, or on workstations that have multiple
users. Policy-based management includes policy-based network
management, the use of delineated policies to control access to
and priorities for the use of resources. Policy-based management
is often used in systems management. Policy-based management of
a multi-user workstation typi