Activating a global policy

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You must activate a global policy for the global policy enforcement to take effect.

Before you begin

You must have Activate global policies privilege to perform this task.

About this task

When you activate a global policy, be aware of the following points.

  • When a global policy becomes active, webMethods API Gateway begins enforcing it immediately in all the applicable APIs that are currently in the Active state. You can suspend enforcement of a policy by switching it to the Inactive state as described in Deactivating a global policy.
  • Activation of a global policy fails if there is a conflict in the effective policy validation in at least one of the active APIs that are applicable for this policy. webMethods API Gateway reports the conflict, and the global policy can only be activated when the conflict is resolved.

The icon in the Active column indicates the policy's activation state. The activation state of a policy is also reported in the Global Policy Details page.

Procedure

  1. Open the menu options and select Manage > Policies.
  2. Click the Global Policies tab.
    A list of all available global policies appears. Use the Show list to set the maximum number of policies you want to display in a page.
  3. Select the required policy.
    The Global Policy Details page appears.
  4. Click Activate.
    If you do not see the Activate button, it is probably because you do not have the webMethods API Gateway administrator role to activate a global policy, or the policy is already in an active state in API Gateway.