You can use the administrative console to modify existing custom
policy sets that you have created. If you have copied an existing default
policy set or created a policy set yourself, you can always go back and make
changes to them to make them better suit the changing needs of your business.
Before you begin
You can only modify custom policy sets. You cannot modify the provided
default policy sets, so first ensure that the policy set you want to modify
is a custom policy set. If it is not, create a copy of it and modify the copy.
About this task
To modify a custom policy set, you can use the Policy set settings
view to access configuration information for the policy set.
Procedure
- Create a policy set using the steps in Creating policy sets using the administrative console
- From the administrative console, click Services > Policy sets
> Application policy sets > policy_set_name where policy_set_name is
the custom policy set of interest that is displayed in the table. This
opens the Policy set settings view to specify the required information about
the policy set being created.
- Change the description of the policy set. Edit the brief
description of the policy set in the Description field. This is the
description that displays in the Application policy sets collection so it
must be meaningful to you and other potential users of this policy set.
- Edit the policy information. You can include, exclude,
add or delete policies from this policy set using the settings in the Policies table.
To work more extensively with policies, see Managing policies in a policy set using the administrative console
- Detach the policy set from an application or replace the policy
set attached to the application with another policy set. Click
the Attached applications link to access applications that are attached
to this policy set and applications that contain attached service resources.
To detach a policy set from an application, use the following steps:
- In the Filter list, click Name.
- Find the application. In the Search term(s) field,
enter all or part of the name of the application you want to detach and click
the Go button.
- Detach the application. Find and select the application
in the listing and click the Detach Policy Set button.
To change the policy set that is attached to an application, use the
following steps:
- In the Filter list, click Name.
- Find the application. In the Search term(s) field,
enter all or part of the name of the application and click the Go button.
- Replace the policy set for this application. Find
and select the application in the listing and click the Replace Policy
Set button. You then have one of the following options:
- If there are fewer than 25 policy sets to choose from, the Replace Policy
Set button is a drop down list and you can click a policy set to attach to
the application.
- If there are more than 25 policy sets to choose from, the Replace Policy
Set button opens a collection of policy sets and you can select the policy
set to replace from the listing.
Results
Performing these tasks modifies the application to which the custom
policy set is attached.
Example
If you had a custom policy set ABC RAMP, for example, that had a
misleading description and you want to change the description so that other
users know what the policy set really includes, you would access the Policy
Set settings view for that policy set. To do this, from the administrative
console, you would click Services > Policy Sets > Application Policy Sets
> ABC RAMP. Then you would click the description field and edit
the text so that it better represents the scope of the policy set.
What to do next
If the policy set you have modified is an attached policy set, restart
all affected applications to pick up the changes you made. If the policy set
is unattached, then no further action is required.