6.7. Policies

The Policies tab provides a single interface for managing all the different policies used in Application-level Gateway service definitions.

Policies are independent from service definitions. A single policy can be used in several services or proxy classes. Policies must be created and properly configured before they are actually used in a service. When configuring a service, only the existing (that is, previously defined) policies can be selected.

The Policies tab

Figure 6.58. The Policies tab

On the left side of the Policies tab the existing policies are displayed in a tree, sorted by policy type. If a policy is selected, its parameters are displayed on the right side of the panel.

The policies available from the Policies tab of the MC Application-level Gateway component are listed below. The subsequent sections describe the different policy types and their uses. The Authentication, Authentication Provider, and Authorization policies are discussed in Chapter 15, Connection authentication and authorization.