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Policies are used to control, to influence, and to help ensure compliance with goals. A policy can be defined at a high level to create a condition, requirement, constraint, or need that must be provided, maintained, and enforced. A policy can also be defined at a lower or functional level, such as a machine-readable rule or software condition/assertion which enables actions to be taken based on a trigger or request, specific to particular selected conditions in effect at that time. OpenECOMP supports XACML policies, Drools rules, and lower-level policies that are embodied in modeling languages such as YANG and TOSCA.
The Policy Creation subsystem also provides additional functionality once policies are initially created:
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