Listing policy sets available for attachment using the wsadmin tool

Use the wsadmin tool to list the supported policy sets that are available to attach to a web services resource. You can attach policy sets to an application, web service, endpoint, or specific operation.

Before you begin

When administrative security is enabled, verify that you use the correct administrative role, as the following table describes:

Table 1. Administrative roles . The administrative role determines if you can create policy set attachments.
Administrative role	Authorization
Administrator	The Administrator role must have cell-wide access to create policy set attachments. If you have access to a specific resource only, you can create policy set attachments for the resource for which you have access.
Configurator	The Configurator role must have cell-wide access to create policy set attachments. If you have access to a specific resource only, you can create policy set attachments for the resource for which you have access.
Deployer	The Deployer role with cell-wide or resource specific access can create policy set attachments for application resources only.
Operator	The Operator role cannot create policy set attachments.
Monitor	The Monitor role cannot create policy set attachments.

About this task

To use a new policy set to manage policies for your Web services application, you must attach the policy set to an asset or resource. When the application restarts, the application uses the policies from the newly attached policy set. The listSupportedPolicySets command lists the policy sets which are supported and can be attached to an application or other web services resource.

Procedure

Launch a scripting command.
Run the command to list supported policy sets.
The following example demonstrates how to use the -assetProps parameter to display policy sets that can be attached to a specific type of resource.
List policy sets that can be attached to an application:
```
AdminTask.listSupportedPolicySets ('[-assetProps [[application myApplication]]]')
```
List policy sets that can be attached to a WS-Notification service client:
```
AdminTask.listSupportedPolicySets ('[-assetProps [[bus bus1] [WSNService service1]]]')
```
List policy sets that can be attached to a trust service resource:
```
AdminTask.listSupportedPolicySets ('[-assetProps [[systemType trustService]]]')
```
List policy sets that can be attached to a business-level application resource. You must specify the business-level application (BLA) name and composition unit (CU) name. Two other properties, BLA edition and CU edition, are optional.
```
AdminTask.listSupportedPolicySets ('[-assetProps [[blaName myBLA] [cuName
 compositionUnit1]]]')
```
This example uses the optional properties:
```
AdminTask.listSupportedPolicySets ('[-assetProps [[blaName myBLA] [cuName
 compositionUnit1] [blaEdition BASE] [cuEdition 1.0]]]')
```

Results

The command output is a list of policy set names. Use this list to determine which policy sets to attach to your web services resources.

What to do next

Manage and update your policy set attachments. For more information, read about managing policy set attachments using the wsadmin tool.