Deactivating a Design/Change-Time Policy
Pre-requisites:
To deactivate a design/change-time policy in CentraSite, you must have one of the following permissions:
To deactivate a organization-specific policy, you must have the Manage Design/Change-Time Policies permission for the organization specified in the scope of the original policy. For example, if the original policy is scoped for organization ABC, you are not permitted to deactivate that policy unless you have permission to manage design/change-time policies for organization ABC.
To deactivate a system-wide policy, you must have the Manage System-Wide Design/Change-Time Policies permission.
Important:
If you belong to a role that includes the Manage System-Wide Design/Change-Time Policies permission, you have the ability to deactivate CentraSite's predefined policies. However, you should not do this. These policies perform critical functions within the registry and must not be deactivated except under the direction of a technical representative from Software AG.
Deactivating a design/change-time policy causes CentraSite to suppress enforcement of the policy. You usually deactivate a policy for the following reasons:
To suspend enforcement of a particular policy (temporarily or permanently).
To edit a policy (for example, to modify the scope of a policy or change its action list).
To deactivate a policy, you change the policy to the Suspended state. Switching the policy to this state triggers the Automatic Policy Deactivation policy, which deactivates the policy. Switching the policy to the Retired state also deactivates the policy, but you do not want to switch a policy to this state unless you intend to deactivate it permanently. After you place a policy in the Retired state, you cannot reactivate it.
When you deactivate a policy, CentraSite does not deactivate a policy if it is in the process of being executed. If you attempt to deactivate a policy while it is executing, your state change request fails. If this occurs, wait for a period time and then try to deactivate the policy again.
To deactivate a design/change-time policy
1. In CentraSite Control, go to Policies > Design/Change-Time.
This displays a list of defined design-time and change-time policies in the Design/Change-Time Policies page.
2. Locate the policy you want to deactivate and select Details from its context menu.
This opens the Design/Change-Time Policy Details page.
3. In the Policy Information panel, click Change State. (If you do not see the Change State button, it is probably because you do not have permission to change the lifecycle state of a policy.)
4. In the Change Lifecycle State dialog box, select the Suspended state (to deactivate it temporarily) or the Retired state (to deactivate it permanently), then click OK
5. Examine the State field in the Policy Information panel to verify that the policy's state has been changed.
If this state change requires approval, the State field indicates that the policy is in the pending mode. CentraSite automatically switch the policy to the requested state (and deactivate the policy) after all the necessary approvals have been obtained.