Managing Application Policy

Creating, configuring, and managing Access Gateway application policies.

Important Note

Important

When configuring application access policy its important to understand that all application access policy is derived from, or inherits from, the original group specified in the applications Essentials section. Before any access policy is applied to any application URI, a check is made against the applications group setting, which may grant or deny access to the application as a whole.

Configuring application access policy

To configure an application policy:

  1. Navigate to the Access Gateway Admin UI console.

  2. Click the Applications tab.

  3. Select an application that requires new policy and click Edit.

  4. Select the Policies sub-tab.
  5. Choose one of:
    Add a new policy
    Delete an existing policy
    Modify an existing policyModify attribute(pencil) icon.
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Note

The default root (/) policy cannot be deleted or modified.

Add a new policy

  1. Click Add () in the policy list header and choose one of:
    • Protected
    • Not Protected
    • Protected Rule
    • Adaptive

    See About Access Gateway policy types for type details.

  2. Enter the URI to the resource being protected.
  3. For Protected, Protected Rule, and Adaptive Rule, enter a regex expression representing the users who should be granted access to the resource.  See Example Access Gateway policy for examples of expressions.
  4. Click Okay to add the policy or Cancel to cancel.

Delete an existing policy

  1. Click Delete () next to the policy to be deleted.
  2. In the confirm dialog box, click Yes to delete the attribute or No to cancel the delete operation.

Modify an existing policy

  1. Click Edit (Modify attribute(pencil) icon.) next to the policy rule to be modified.
    The Edit existing Policy dialog box is displayed.
  2. Modify the policy as required.
  3. Click Okay to save the modified Attribute or Cancel to cancel the modification.