WAS v8.5 > Administer applications and their environment > Administer web services (generally applicable) > Manage web services policy sets

Manage policies in a policy set

When working with policy sets in the dmgr console, we can customize the included policies to ensure message security. We can enable, disable, customize, add, or delete policies from a policy set. With your policy sets, we can define policies for WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Transaction, HTTP transport, Java Messaging Service (JMS) transport, and SSL transport. The policies for all but WS-Security are relatively straightforward to define.

We can customize the policies for custom policy sets. The provided default policy sets cannot be edited. Make sure that we have created a copy of the default policy set or created a completely new policy set to specify the policies for this policy set.

Customize policies associated with a policy set using the dmgr console.

1. Click one of the following:
   • Services > Policy sets > Application policy sets >policy_set_name
   • Services > Policy sets > System policy sets >policy_set_name

   We can also click Services > Policy sets > Application policy sets > New or Services > Policy sets > System policy sets > New. Follow this path when we want to create a new policy set and the associated policy or policies.

2. Add a policy to a custom policy set. To do this, see Add policies to policy sets .

3. Enable a policy for a custom policy set. To do this, see Enable policies for policy sets .

4. Optional: We can also disable a policy from a custom policy set. To do this, see Disable policies from policy sets .

5. Optional: We can also delete a policy from a custom policy set. To do this, see Delete policies from policy sets .

Results

After we have customized your policies, the associated policy set can protect messages according to the policy or policies defined.

If the policy set we have modified is an attached policy set, restart all affected applications to pick up the changes you made. If the policy set is unattached, then no further action is required.

Subtopics

• Add policies to policy sets
  We can use the dmgr console to add policies to policy sets. Adding and configuring policies to a policy set further defines the rules governing the policy set.
• Delete policies from policy sets
  We can use the dmgr console to delete policies from policy sets. Deleting the policy removes the policy that further defined the rules governing the policy set.
• Modify policies
  With your policy sets, we can define policies for WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Transaction, HTTP transport, Java Messaging Service (JMS) transport, and SSL transport. The policies for all but WS-Security are relatively straightforward to define.
• Enable policies for policy sets
  Policies can be listed in a policy set in the disabled state so they are not currently included in the policy set. We can enable a policy to be included in a policy set using the dmgr console.
• Disable policies from policy sets
  You can have policies listed in a policy set that are in the enabled state so they are currently included in the policy set. We can disable a policy from being included in a policy set without deleting it from the policy set. You might want to do this if you want the policy included in the policy set in the future. We can use the dmgr console to change this setting.
• Web services policies
  Policies define the type of web service policy based on the quality of service type. Policies are initially set with default settings but the attributes can be edited and changed.

Related

Add and remove policies using wsadmin.sh
Create policy set attachments using wsadmin
Remove policy set attachments using wsadmin
Manage policy set attachments using wsadmin

Reference:

Application policy sets page
Application policy set settings

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