(1) In the Backup, Recovery, and Media Services licensed program, a named or otherwise identifiable set of controls used by Backup, Recovery, and Media Services to manage and control specific operations. A policy is an overriding value that is carried in tables for use as a default in processing backup, recovery, archive, and media management operations.
(2) In QoS, the combination of rules and services. The rules define the criteria for traffic treatment, network resource access, and use.
(3) A set of considerations that influence the behavior of a managed resource or a user. See also policy expression.
(4) A list of file-placement and service-class rules that define characteristics and placement of files. Several policies can be defined within the configuration, but only one policy set is active at one time. See also file-placement rule, file-management policy, file-placement policy.
(5) A document that sets forth high-level statements of how changes, releases, or other processes are to be managed, organized, and performed.