System policy set settings

Use this page to create a new system policy set or to edit information about an existing custom system policy set. A system policy set is a named collection of trust policies for the trust service.

To view this administrative console page, complete one of the following procedures:
Important: You can edit the fields on this page only if the policy set is a custom trust policy set. You cannot edit default trust policy sets.
Name

Specifies the name of the trust policy set.

This field displays the name of the existing custom policy set that you selected. If a new policy set is being created, this field is blank. Enter a policy set name.

Data type: String
Description

Specifies a brief description of the new or existing custom policy set.

This field provides a brief description for the existing policy set that is displayed in the Name field. If a new policy set is being created, this field is blank. Enter a brief policy set description to help distinguish it from other policy sets. You cannot change the descriptions of the default policy sets.

Data type: String
Policies

Specifies a collection of trust-related policies.

The Policies section displays a list of pre-configured system-level trust policies. If the system policy set is a default trust policy set, policies cannot be added, deleted, enabled, or disabled. If the system policy set is an existing custom trust policy set, you can change the policies. If you are creating a new custom trust policy set, you can add new policies. You can also delete, enable, or disable any policies that are added.

Select

Specifies that you want to select an existing policy for further actions.

Click Add to display a list of valid policies that you can add to the named trust policy set.

To manage existing system policies, select the check box for a policy and select one of the following actions:

Actions Description
Delete Removes one or more policies from the named custom policy set.
Enable Specifies that the policy is enabled for the policy set and displays Enabled in the State column.
Disable Specifies that the policy is disabled for the policy set. The policy remains in the list but displays Disabled in the State column.
Policy

Specifies the name of the policy.

This column displays one or more of these pre-configured trust policies:
  • HTTP transport – for HTTP transport policies
  • SSL transport – for HTTPS transport policies
  • WS-Addressing – for endpoint addressing policies
  • WS-Security – for secure SOAP messages policies
Data type: Selection list
State

Specifies an enabled or disabled state for each policy.

This column displays whether the policy is enabled or disabled for each of the policies that are listed in the Policy column. For example, to change the state of the policy from enabled to disabled, select the checkbox for the policy, and click Disable.

Data type: String
Default: Enabled
Description

Displays a brief description of the policy.

You can view these descriptions only.




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