Deactivating a Global Policy
You must have the API Gateway's activate global policies functional privilege assigned.
Deactivating a global policy causes API Gateway to suppress enforcement of the policy.
You usually deactivate a policy to suspend enforcement of a particular policy (temporarily or permanently).
To deactivate a policy, you change the policy to the
Inactive state. At a later time, you can begin enforcing a global policy by switching it to the
Active state as described in
Activating a Global Policy.
When you deactivate a global policy, be aware that:
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Deactivation 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.
API Gateway reports the conflict, and the global policy can only be activated when the conflict is resolved.
To determine whether a global policy is active or inactive, examine the policy's Active indicator on the Policies > Global Policies tab. The icon in the Active column indicates the policy's activation state as follows:
Icon | Description |
| Policy is active. |
| Policy is inactive. |
The deactivation state of a policy is also reported in the Global Policy Details page.
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To deactivate a global policy
1. Click Policies in the title navigation bar.
2. Click the Global Policies tab.
A list of all available global policies appears.
3. Select the required policy.
The Global Policy details page appears.
4. Click Deactivate.
If you do not see the Deactivate button, it is probably because you do not have the API Gateway Administrator role to deactivate a global policy, or the policy is already in an Inactive state in API Gateway.