SQL Server® 2008 Administration: Instant Reference

13.2. Manage Policies in the Enterprise

Using Enterprise Policy Management (EPM) Framework allows the DBA to extend the policy-based management that exists in SQL Server 2008 to control the application, evaluation, and creation of policies throughout the enterprise, including those from earlier versions of SQL product such as SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. EPM is a reporting solution that keeps track of the state in the enterprise against defined policies. The EPM framework will also allow a centralized means of collecting and evaluating policy information. With EPM reporting and administration across the multiple instances and environments, you will see management simplified in many ways by the virtue of the centralized reporting that the framework ...