Manage policies in a policy set using the administrative console
When working with policy sets in the administrative 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 administrative console.
Tasks
- 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.
- Add a policy to a custom policy set. To do this, see Add policies to policy sets .
- Enable a policy for a custom policy set. To do this, see Enable policies for policy sets .
- Optional: We can also disable a policy from a custom policy set. To do this, see Disable policies from policy sets .
- Optional: We can also delete a policy from a custom policy set. To do this, see Deleting policies from policy sets .
After we have customized your policies, the associated policy set can protect messages according to the policy or policies defined.
What to do next
If the policy set we have modified is an attached policy set, restart all affected applications to pick up the changes we made. If the policy set is unattached, then no further action is required.
Subtopics
- Add policies to policy sets
Use the administrative 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
Use the administrative 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 that they are not currently included in the policy set. We can enable a policy to be included in a policy set using the administrative console.- Disable policies from policy sets
We can have policies listed in a policy set in the enabled state so that 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. We might want to do this if we want the policy included in the policy set in the future. Use the administrative 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.
Add and remove policies Create policy set attachments Remove policy set attachments Manage policy set attachments Application policy sets collection Application policy set settings