System policy sets

A policy set is a named collection of Quality of Service (QoS) policies. You can use either the administrative console or the wsadmin command to manage system policy sets. Policy sets can be created, deleted, copied, or exported.

A policy set can be shared by multiple resources, such as applications, services, inbound or outbound service endpoints, and operations. Default policy sets are installed using profile augmentation.

A policy set does not have its own bindings. You must attach a binding to a policy set. During deployment, an administrator or deployer can attach policy sets to an application level, a system level, and a service level.

Note: When attempting to connect to a Web service from a thin client, verify that the resources that you are specifying are valid before running the updatePolicySetAttachment command. No configuration changes are made if the requested resource does not match a resource in the attachment file for the application.

A client application can dynamically select a policy suite (reference by name from an application-level policy suites list). Options shown in the administrative console list are based on the type of template that is selected to create the policy set. For example, the SecureConversation policy type is made up of policies for both WSSecurity and WSAddressing.

There are two types of policy sets:
WebSphere Application Server provides predefined system policy sets. For example, WebSphere Application Server provides two system policy sets by default for the security trust service:
You cannot edit default system policy sets. However, you can create your own custom system policy set, which can be edited later. Copy or export a default or existing custom system policy set to create the new custom policy set. For custom system policy sets, you can adding one or more policies to each policy set. You can add any of the following existing policies: The HTTP transport policy can be used for HTTPS, basic authorization, compression, and binary encoding transport methods.

The policy sets are installed in a central location on WebSphere Application Server so that they can be available to all applications on the server. For WebSphere Application Server, system policy sets are stored at the cell level.




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