This section provides a summary of the run-time actions you can include in the policy enforcement rules for a virtual OData service. You use these actions only when you are using the CentraSite Business UI to create policy enforcement rules for virtual OData services.

A policy enforcement rule provides run-time governance capabilities to a virtual OData service. A run-time policy is a sequence of actions that are carried out by Mediator when a consumer requests a particular service through Mediator.

The actions in a policy perform activities such as identifying or authenticating consumers and capturing performance measurements. An action is a single task that is included in a policy enforcement rule and is evaluated by Mediator at run-time. You can configure one or more parameters into an action while inserting the actions into a rule. For example, an action that identifies consumers specifies one or more identifiers to identify the consumers who are trying to access the OData services.

Following is a summary of the built-in run-time actions you can include in a policy enforcement rule. For complete details of all actions, see CentraSite User’s Guide: