You can export policy sets between a client and a provider or between
servers using the administrative console.
Before you begin
Before you begin this task, select the policy set to be exported.
Read about the application policy sets collection and exporting policy sets
to client or server environments using the wsadmin tool.
About this task
Static export is used in development environment to exchange a policy
sets between a client and a provider. You can also export between servers.
The exported format is a .zip file.
Procedure
- From the administrative console navigation, click Services >
Policy sets > Application policy sets. The Application policy
sets collection page displays a listing of the custom and default policy sets.
Custom policy sets are displayed only if you have created them. If you have
not created a custom policy set, then only the default policy sets are displayed.
- From the Application policy sets panel, select a policy set and
click Export.
- Locate the export archive file. From the Export policy
set archive file settings panel, click the archive file to export.
- Choose a location to export the file. Do not export
the file to a browser.
Results
When you finish this task, the policy set archive file has been exported
to the location you specified.
Example
If you have a policy set, ABC_ps and you want to
move it from ServerA to ClientA, you can
use the export function. The export policy set can be used by importing it
into another application server. Read about the command task for importing
an exported policy set zip file.
What to do next
You can import the policy set to reuse it.