Software AG Products 10.5 | Using API Gateway | Policies | Managing Global Policies | Creating a Global Policy
 
Creating a Global Policy
You must have the API Gateway's manage global policies functional privilege assigned.
To create a global policy you must perform the following high-level steps:
1. Create a new global policy: During this step, you specify the basic details of the global policy.
2. Optionally refine the scope of the policy: During this step, you can specify additional criteria to narrow the set of APIs to which the global policy applies.
3. Configure the policies: During this step, you associate one or more policies, and assign values to each of the associated policy's properties.
4. Activate the policy: During this step, you put the new global policy into effect.
*To create 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. In the Policies page, click the Create Global Policy button.
If you do not see the Create Global Policy button, it is probably because you do not have the API Gateway Administrator role to create a global policy in API Gateway.
This opens the Create Global Policy page with the default Policy Details tab.
4. In the Basic Information section, provide the required information for each of the displayed data fields:
Field
Description
Name
Name of the global policy.
Description
Description of the global policy.
5. Click Save to save the new (as yet incomplete) global policy.
6. Complete the new global policy by doing the following:
a. On the Filters section, specify the API types, additional criteria for selecting the APIs to which you want the global policy to be applied, logical operator for the selection criteria, and the APIs to which the global policy applies. For details, see Modifying the Scope of a Global Policy and Refining the Scope of a Global Policy.
b. On the Policy Configuration tab, choose the policies and configure the properties for each policy that you want API Gateway to execute when it applies this global policy. For details, see Associating Policies to a Global Policy and Configuring Properties for a Global Policy.
c. Activate the global policy when you are ready to put it into effect. For details, see Activating a Global Policy.