Policy Agent services

Policy Agent provides the following services:

• Reads and parses policy definitions, and provides those policies to one or more TCP/IP stacks or policy clients. The Policy Agent actively participates in maintaining the policies by monitoring the policy files, detecting changes, and informing the TCP/IP stacks or policy clients about any changes.
• Imports policy through a passive service known as policy file import. The main user of this service is the IBM® Configuration Assistant for z/OS® Communications Server, through its Policy Data Import function.

  For this configuration file import service, the Policy Agent reads and parses policy definitions one time, and provides the policies to an import requester. The import requester can import the policies into an existing configuration, or can just verify that the policy definitions are without errors.

• Imports TCP/IP profile information through a passive service known as the discovery of TCP/IP profile function. The main user of this service is the IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server.

  For this request, the Policy Agent retrieves information from the TCP/IP profile. The import requester can retrieve this information and use it as configuration data.

• Starts, monitors, stops, and restarts dependent components of the policy infrastructure. You can instruct Policy Agent to manage the following components:
  • DMD
  • IKED
  • NSSD
  • syslogd
  • TRMD per stack on a system