Editing a Rule
Scenario
You can modify, enable, disable, or delete a rule at any time.
You can perform these operations in the rule list or on the Rules Details page. This section describes how to modify, enable, disable, or delete a rule through the rule list.
- The resource recorder must be enabled for adding, modifying, enabling, or triggering a rule. If the resource recorder is disabled, you can only view, disable, and delete rules.
- You cannot modify, disable, enable, or delete an individual organization rule that is deployed to your account or an individual rule of a conformance package. Only the organization administrator or delegated administrator of Config who creates the organization rule can modify or delete it. To modify or delete a rule of a conformance package, modify or delete the package. For details, see Organization Rules and Conformance Packages.
Disabling a Rule
- Log in to the management console.
- Click in the upper left corner. Under Management & Governance, click Config.
- In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resource Compliance.
- On the Rules tab, locate a target rule and click Disable in the Operation column.
- In the displayed dialog box, click OK.
Figure 1 Disabling a rule
Enabling a Rule
- Log in to the management console.
- Click in the upper left corner. Under Management & Governance, click Config.
- In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resource Compliance.
- On the Rules tab, locate a target rule and click Enable in the Operation column.
- In the displayed dialog box, click OK.
After a rule is enabled, it will be automatically triggered immediately.
Figure 2 Enabling a rule
Modifying a Rule
- Log in to the management console.
- Click in the upper left corner. Under Management & Governance, click Config.
- In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resource Compliance.
- On the Rules tab, locate a target rule and click More > Modify in the Operation column.
Figure 3 Modifying a rule
- On Basic Configurations page, modify the rule description and name and click Next.
- On the Configure Rule Parameters page, configure required parameters and click Next.
The configuration items that you can modify vary for different policies.
- Filter Type: Can be modified when Trigger Type is set to Configuration change
- Resource Scope: Can be modified when Trigger Type is set to Configuration change
- Filter Scope: Can be modified when Trigger Type is set to Configuration change.
- Execute Every: Can be modified when Trigger Type is set to Periodic execution.
- Configure Rule Parameters: For a rule created with a predefined policy, you can only modify the values of parameters for Configure Rule Parameters. For a custom rule, you can add, delete, and modify related parameters.
- Confirm the modifications and click Submit.
After a rule is modified, it will be automatically triggered.
Deleting a Rule
To delete a rule, you need to disable the rule first. If a rule has remediation configured, you also need to delete the remediation.
- Log in to the management console.
- Click in the upper left corner. Under Management & Governance, click Config.
- In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resource Compliance.
- On the Rules tab, locate a target rule and click More > Delete in the Operation column.
Figure 4 Deleting a rule
- Click OK.
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