Working With BSM Connector > Policy Management > How to Edit Policies

How to Edit Policies

BSM Connector enables multiple users to connect to the same server at the same time. However, only one user at a time can edit a policy to prevent changes from other users overwriting each other.

When you edit a policy, BSM Connector locks the policy for you so that only you can save the policy. Note that if you open a policy more than once, only the first editor instance receives the lock and can save the policy.

Locked policies display with a lock icon "This policy is being edited by user admin on system server.example.com since 09/21/2010 3:35:19 PM." and the name of the editing user in the list of policies in the BSM Connector user interface. (The tooltip explains who locked the policy and when.)

BSM Connector releases the lock when the policy is closed or when a user forcefully breaks the lock. It is recommended that you only break the edit lock when you have reason to believe that the locked policy editor was abandoned or stopped working. Policy editors that have been forcefully unlocked by another user change to read-only mode and you can no longer save any changes made.

Tip: When you open a locked policy for viewing, reload the policy from time to time to ensure that you are viewing the most recently saved version.