Metadata

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Entering, editing, and deleting policy template metadata requires the Create policies role. For complete descriptions of each role available in Flexera One, see Flexera One Roles.

The first section of a policy template provides generic information about the policy such as its name, a short and long description as well as the policy severity and category:

name "AWS Reserved Instances Recommendations"
rs_pt_ver 20180301
type "policy"
short_description "A policy that sends email notifications when AWS RI Recommendations are identified. NOTE: These RI Purchase Recommendations are generated by AWS. See the [README](https://github.com/flexera-public/policy_templates/tree/master/cost/aws/reserved_instances/recommendations) and [docs.flexera.com/flexera/EN/Automation](https://docs.flexera.com/flexera/EN/Automation/AutomationGS.htm) to learn more."
long_description ""
severity "medium"
category "Cost"
default_frequency "daily"
info(
  version: "2.19",
  provider: "AWS",
  service: "EC2",
  policy_set: "Reserved Instances",
  recommendation_type: "Rate Reduction",
  hide_skip_approvals: "true"
)

The following tables describe the required and optional policy template metadata.

Metadata	Description
name	Defines the policy template name. It must be unique in the project.
<span class="Code">rs_pt_ver</span>	Indicates the policy template language version. The value must be "20180301" .
<span class="Code">type</span>	Must be "policy" .
<span class="_Override">short_description</span>	Provides a short description of what the policy does.

Metadata	Description
<span class="Code">default_frequency</span>	Sets the interval between policy evaluations if another value is not selected by the person applying the policy. It must be one of "15 minutes" (default), "hourly" , "daily" , "weekly" or "monthly" .
<span class="Code">long_description</span>	Provides a long description of what the policy does.
<span class="Code">severity</span>	Indicates the policy severity, it must be one of "low" (default), "medium" , "high" or "critical" .
<span class="Code">category</span>	Is an arbitrary value used to group policies into categories, for example "Cost" , "Compliance" or "Security" .
<span class="Code">info</span>	Specifies an arbitrary list of metadata attached to the policy and should be an mapping of string to string. For the List of Flexera Policies, the standard is to use the following metadata fields: version —Version of the template, using semantic versioning. Updated every time a policy template is changed. provider—An identifier for which provider the policy applies to, such as AWS. service—Where applicable, which service of the provider the policy applies to, such as "EC2". hide_skip_approvals—Configures the visibility of the Skip Action Approvals checkbox. Enter the appropriate value. "true" hides the Skip Action Approvals option. The check is case insensitive. By default, this value is enabled for policies without the request_approval field. "false", omitted, or any other value displays the Skip Action Approvals option, enabling you to bypass approvals and automatically approve actions.
<span class="Code">tenancy</span>	Specifies whether this policy can be applied to more than one project at a time and how incidents are grouped together. It must be one of "multi" , or "single" . If a policy has a credential declaration in it, only single is supported and is the default if not specified. If a policy does not have such a declaration, then this defaults to multi . Generally speaking this should only be set manually in the case where the policy acts on organization-wide resources such as Cloud Cost Optimization APIs, in which case it should be set to single . Otherwise the default is sufficient and this can be omitted.