Activating a Design/Change-Time Policy
Pre-requisites:
To activate a design/change-time policy in CentraSite, you must have one of the following permissions:
To activate 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 activate that policy unless you have permission to manage design/change-time policies for organization ABC.
To activate 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 activate 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.
CentraSite does not begin enforcing a Design/Change Time policy until you activate it.
Policies are managed by a predefined lifecycle installed with CentraSite. This lifecycle, called the Policy Lifecycle, defines the following lifecycle states: New, Productive, Suspended, and Retired.
To activate a policy, you change the policy's lifecycle state to the Productive state. This state change executes CentraSite's Automatic Policy Activation policy.
Note: The Automatic Policy Activation policy is a hidden system policy. You cannot edit or delete this policy.
When you activate a policy, be aware that:
You are not be allowed to activate the policy unless all of its parameters have been set. When you switch the policy to the Productive state,
CentraSite executes the
Validate Policy Activation policy. This policy does not allow you to switch a policy to the Productive state if the policy's parameters have not yet been set.
Some organizations require an approval to activate a policy. If your organization has an approval action associated with the activation of a policy,
CentraSite does not activate the policy until the required approvals are obtained.
If an earlier version of the policy is already active,
CentraSite deactivates the old version before it activates the new one.
When a policy becomes active,
CentraSite begins enforcing it immediately. You can suspend enforcement of a policy by switching it to the Suspended state.
To activate a policy, you must have permission to change the policy to the Productive state.
To determine whether a policy is active or inactive, examine the policy's Active indicator on the Policies > Design/Change-Time page. The icon in the Active column indicates the policy's activation state as follows:
Icon | Description |
| Policy is active. |
| Policy is inactive. |
The activation state of a policy is also reported next to the State field in the Design/Change-Time Policy Details page.
To activate 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 activate and select Details from its context menu.
This opens the Design/Change-Time Policy Details page.
3. Examine the Actions tabs and verify that all of the actions on this tab display the green icon in the Parameters Set column. If any of the actions display the red circle icon in this column, set their parameters before you continue.
4. In the Policy Information panel, click Change State.
5. In the Change Lifecycle State dialog box, select the Productive lifecycle state and click OK.
6. 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 policy's decoration indicates that the policy is in the pending mode. CentraSite automatically switches the policy to the requested state and activate the policy after all the necessary approvals have been obtained.
Note: While the policy is in pending mode, it cannot be edited.
