Managing policy sets using the administrative console

You can use policy sets, or assertions that define services, to simplify your web services configuration because policy sets group security and other web services settings into reusable units. You can use the administrative console to create, modify, and delete custom policy sets.

Before you begin

Before creating policy sets, first identify the security and other requirements of the web service.

Note: You can only use policy sets with JAX-WS applications that run on the Axis2 web service engine. You cannot use policy sets for JAX-RPC applications.

About this task

You can use the administrative console to view and manage policy sets. From the administrative console, click Services > Policy sets > Application policy sets or Services > Policy sets > System policy sets. The Application policy sets collection displays a listing of the custom (if you have created custom policy sets) and default policy sets. Use the Application or System policy sets collection page to create, copy, delete, export, and import policy sets.

The following policy sets are ready for you to use as is.

LTPA WSSecurity Default
Kerberos V5 HTTPS default
SSL WSTransaction
Username SecureConversation
Username WSSecurity default
WS-Addressing default
WSHTTPS default
WS-I RSP ND
WS-ReliableMessaging persistent

Depending on your assigned security role when security is enabled, you might not have access to text entry fields or buttons to create or edit configuration data. Review the administrative roles documentation to learn more about the valid roles for the application server.

Procedure

View policy sets.

Learn about the process of viewing and evaluating policy sets.
Create policy sets.

Learn about two ways to create policy sets: creating new policy sets or copying and renaming policy set templates.
Modify policy sets.

Learn how to edit custom policy sets you have created.
Import policy sets.

Learn how to import policy sets from the default repository or from a selected location.
Export policy sets.

Learn how to export policy sets.
Delete policy sets.

Learn how to delete custom policy sets. You can delete policy set templates and re-import them if needed.
Manage policies in a policy set

Learn how you can define policies with policy sets to secure messages.
Define and manage policy set bindings

Learn about configuring custom binding configurations.

Results

Using these tasks, you can determine how to create a new policy set and verify whether you can reuse an existing policy set. You can configure a policy set, and define policies for that policy set.

What to do next

Depending on how you are using policy sets, you might want to revisit some of the tasks listed in this topic to tweak the configuration for your policy set. You can also proceed to configure bindings for your policy set. See Defining binding information for policy sets.