Activating a Run-Time Policy

When you activate a policy, you change the policy's lifecycle state to the “Productive” state.

When you activate a run-time policy, CentraSite applies it to the virtual APIs that are in the scope of this policy.

You will not be allowed to activate the policy unless all of its parameters have been set.

Some organizations require an approval to activate a policy. If your organization has an approval action associated with the activation of a policy, CentraSite will not activate the policy until the required approvals are obtained. For more information about approval actions, see Working with the CentraSite Business UI.

When a policy becomes active, CentraSite begins enforcing it immediately. You can suspend enforcement of a policy by switching it to the “Suspended” state as described in Deactivating a Run-Time Policy.

To activate a policy, you must have permission to change the policy to the “Productive” state.

To successfully change a policy to the "Productive" state, you must also have the “Modify” permission on all virtual type services to which the policy is applied.

To determine whether a policy is active or inactive, examine the policy's decoration indicator on the Search Results for Governance Rules page. The decoration indicates the policy's activation state as follows:

1. Display the Run-Time Policy Details page for the policy you want to activate. If you need procedures for this step, see Viewing or Changing a Run-Time Policy.

2. Examine the information on Run-Time Policy Details (Step 2 of 3) and verify that all of the actions on the Message Flow area are set properly. For information about setting action parameters, see Configuring Policy Action Parameters.

Click the Activate button. (If you do not see the Activate button, it is probably because you do not have permission to change the lifecycle state of a policy.) When you click this button, you simply activate the policy.

Click the Activate and Publish button. (If you do not see the Activate and Publish button, it is probably because you do not have permission to change the lifecycle state of a policy or publish the policy.) When you click this button, you activate and publish the policy to webMethods Mediator in a single step.

4. Examine the policy's decoration indicator on the Search Results for Governance Rules page to verify that the policy's state has been changed.

If this state change requires approval, the policy's decoration indicator will indicate that the policy is in the “pending” mode. CentraSite will automatically switch the policy to the requested state (and activate the policy) after all the necessary approvals have been obtained. For information about checking the status of objects that you have submitted for approval, see Working with the CentraSite Business UI.

Alternatively, in the Search Results for Governance Rules page, you can change the policy's lifecycle state to the “Productive” state, by toggling the policy's decoration indicator on and off.

Decoration	Description
	Policy is active.
	Policy is inactive.