Policy assignment fails to propagate to child objects in Aria Operations

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

A newly created policy is successfully applied to a parent object (such as a cluster or group) but fails to inherit or propagate down to its associated child objects (e.g., individual hosts or virtual machines). Consequently, the child objects are incorrectly retaining the inherited vSphere Default Policy instead of applying the newly assigned, desired policy.

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.x

Cause

This issue occurs when the policy is assigned only to the parent object and the 'Include Child Objects' option is not selected, or the depth configuration is not set.
Without the correct depth or child inclusion, the policy assignment applies exclusively to the selected parent object and does not cascade to its child objects.

Resolution

To resolve the issue, follow the below steps:

1. Login to Aria Operations UI
2. Navigate to Operations → Configurations → Policy Assignment and select the intended policy
3. On the right side of the page, locate the Assigned Objects section
4. Click edit, select the option include child objects, with the desired or default depth.
5. Save the changes and wait for a few minutes for the changes to take effect

Additional Information

For more information: Policy assignment in Aria Operations