Deactivating a Design Time Policy
Pre-requisites:
To deactivate a Design Time policy in CentraSite, you must have one of the following permissions:
To deactivate a organization-specific policy, you must have the Manage Design 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 time policies for organization ABC.
To deactivate a system-wide policy, you must have the Manage System-Wide Design Time Policies permission.
Important: If you belong to a role that includes the Manage System-Wide Design Time Policies permission, you can 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 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, move the policy to the Suspended state. Switching the policy to this state triggers the Automatic Policy Deactivation policy, which deactivates the policy. If you plan to delete a policy, the policy should be in the Suspended state. Delete operation moves the policy from Suspended to Retired state and then deletes the policy. Also, when you activate a newer version for a policy, the current version of the policy moves to Retired state.
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.
Note: Unless all approvals triggered by a policy is complete, you cannot deactivate that policy.
To determine whether a policy is active or inactive, examine the policy's decoration indicator on the Search Results page. The decoration indicates the policy's activation state as follows:
Decoration | Description |
| Policy is active. |
| Policy is inactive. |
To deactivate a Design Time policy
1. In the CentraSite Business UI activity bar, click Design Time.
2. To view the Design Time policies:
a. Go to the advanced search panel.
b. In the Narrow Your Results section, perform the following actions:
a. Locate Applicable Scopes. By default, Policy is selected. Additionally, you can also refine your search further by selecting the following options:
Show only Productive Policies
Include Predefined Policies
b. Add a Keyword and click the plus button next to the field to add it to the Current Search Criteria recipe.
c. You can also further refine your search by selecting values for the following from their respective drop-down list and clicking the plus sign next to these fields to add them to the search criteria:
Note: The moment you click the plus sign, the result is refreshed in the Search Results page.
Applicable Organizations
Applicable Types
Applicable Event Types
d. This displays a list of defined Design Time policies in the Search Results page.
3. Select the policy you want to deactivate.
This opens the Design Time Policy Details page.
4. Examine the Policy Actions profile and verify that all of the parameters for the action are configured properly. If any of the actions are not configured, set their parameters before you continue.
5. Click Deactivate to deactivate the policy. (If you do not see the Deactivate button, it is probably because you do not have permission to change the lifecycle state of a policy.)
You can also deactivate a policy by toggling the decoration indicator for the policy in the Search Results page.
6. Examine the decoration indicator of the policy on the Search Results page to verify if the state of the policy has changed. In the policy details page, the Deactivate icon is enabled if the policy is in Productive state (active policy) and the same is indicated by means of the toggle icon in the Manage Design Time activity page.
If this state change requires approval, the decoration indicator of the policy indicates that the policy is in the pending mode. CentraSite automatically switches the policy to the Suspended or Retired state (and deactivates the policy) after all the necessary approvals are obtained. Once the policy is moved to the Retired state, the toggle icon is no longer visible.
