Snapshot specifications and audit policies

An audit policy is collection of rules that defines a desired state of a server’s configuration. An audit policy can be used inside a snapshot specification, either through linking or importing. An audit policy is useful because it allows a policy setter to define server configuration compliance values, which then can be used by others in their snapshot specifications.

Because an audit policy can be linked to an audit or snapshot specification, whenever a change is made to the policy, the audit or snapshot specification using the policy will also reflect the latest changes. Or, an audit policy can be imported into a snapshot specification, without keeping the link to the source audit policy. When you import an audit policy into a snapshot specification, you can choose to replace any current values in the audit or merge values from the audit policy with those in the snapshot specification.