Blackout Policies
Managing Blackout Policies:
From the Notification Policies Library in the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center Libraries view, you can perform the following Blackout Policies operations.
. 
 Create new Blackout Policies.
From the WhatsUp Gold navigation menu:
- Select . 
Alert Center Libraries view displays.
 - Click  panel (to expand it if collapsed).
Blackout Policies Library displays.
 - Click the "add" button (
).The New/Edit Blackout Policy dialog appears. 

 - Enter the appropriate information:
- . Enter a unique name for the blackout policy. 
 - . Enter additional information about the blackout policy.
 
 - Click and drag to select the blackout periods you want to create.

 - Click  or . The blackout policy is added to the Blackout Policies list.
 
. 
 Adjust, tune, and configure existing Blackout Policies.
From the WhatsUp Gold navigation menu:
- Select . 
Alert Center Libraries view displays.
 - Click  panel (to expand it if collapsed).
Blackout Policies Library displays.
 - Click the "add" button (
).The New/Edit Blackout Policy dialog appears. 

 - Enter the appropriate information:
- . Enter a unique name for the blackout policy. 
 - . Enter additional information about the blackout policy.
 
 - Click and drag to select the blackout periods you want to create.

 - Click  or . The blackout policy is added to the Blackout Policies list.
 
. 
 Create policy cloned from the configuration of existing Blackout Policies.
Clone a notification policy based on an existing policy:
- Click on a Blackout Policies you want to copy, from the Blackout Policies panel.
 - Click the  
 button, and click  to create a new Blackout Policies. - Save or customize your new Blackout Policies, either:
- Type in a new value for Name field (or keep the default) and click  to save to the Blackout Policies Library.
 - Follow the Edit Blackout Policies instructions.
 
 
. 
 Remove Blackout Policies from library.
Delete a Blackout Policies:
- Click an existing Blackout Policies you want to delete from the Blackout Policies Library panel.
 - Click the  
 button, and then click  to confirm the deletion.The Blackout Policies configuration is deleted.