Refining the Object Scope

To refine the object scope of a design/change-time policy you must have the instance-level View permission for that particular policy. By default, all users have View permissions on the design/change-time policies in the registry.

To further restrict the set of objects to which the policy is applied, you can specify additional selection criteria in the Apply policy to objects that meet the following criteria section of the Scope tab. Using this section, you can filter objects by Name, Description, and Classification attributes.

Comparison Operator	Description
Equals	Selects objects whose Name or Description value matches a given string of characters. For example, you would use this operator if you wanted to apply a policy only to Taxonomy objects with the Description value Project IDs.
Not Equals	Selects objects whose Name or Description value does not match a given string of characters. For example, you would you use this operator if you wanted to apply a policy to all Taxonomies except those with the Description value Project IDs.
Contains	Selects objects whose Name or Description property includes a given string of characters anywhere within the property's value. For example, you would use this operator if you wanted to apply a policy to Application Server objects that had the word Fairfax anywhere in their Description property.
Starts With	Selects objects whose Name or Description property begins with a given string. For example, you would use this operator if you wanted to apply a policy only to web services whose name begins with the characters UTIL-.

Wild card characters are not supported. That is, you cannot use characters such as * or % to represent any sequence of characters. These characters, if present in the match string, are simply treated as literal characters that are to be matched.

You can also filter objects based on the way in which they are classified. When you filter objects in this way, CentraSite applies the policy to objects that have at least one classification whose value matches a specified taxonomy category. For example, you could use a classification filter to apply a policy to those Application Servers objects that are classified as JBoss servers.

When you filter objects by classification, CentraSite inspects all of an object's classifications at enforcement time. If any of those attributes contain the exact category specified by the selection criteria, the policy is executed.

Note:

To satisfy the selection criteria, the attribute value in the object must match the category specified in the selection criteria exactly. Sub-categories of the specified category are not considered to be matches. For example, say you have a taxonomy category called Project ABC, and that category has the subcategories Project ABC Design, Project ABC Development, and Project ABC Deployment. If you filter for category Project ABC, CentraSite will apply the policy to objects that are classified by the specific category Project ABC but not objects that are classified by that category's sub-categories.