Each default connector virtual service has a default policy, which logs all request/response payloads to a database. You cannot modify the default connector virtual service or its policy. Alternatively, you can create additional connector virtual services with custom policies.

If you create a connector virtual service with a custom policy, you can only include the actions in the Monitoring or Additional action categories; you cannot include the WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 actions (except the Require SSL action). For example, you might want to create a custom policy that monitors run-time performance, customizes how the service invocations are logged, validates response messages against an XML schema, or optimizes server traffic.

The procedures to perform the above tasks (except for creating policies) appear below, in the following sections: