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Procedure
1 On the Application Services title bar, click the drop-down menu and select Library > Policies.
2 Open a policy to add a policy definition script.
3 In the Script column, click the hyperlink to open the Edit Script dialog box.
You can refer to the existing predefined policy definitions and create a script in the dialog box.
4 Click OK.
What to do next
Specifying a policy definition has no impact on deployments unless you create a policy instance in a
deployment environment to enable that policy definition on all of the deployments under the deployment
environment. See Create a Policy Instance.
Maintain Policy Versions
You can edit a policy to add or remove policy definitions, edit the action script, or change the scan
parameters. When you edit policy definitions, it does not affect existing policy instances created from it.
The changes are implemented only to new policy instances.
Prerequisites
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Log in to Application Services as an application cloud administrator and an application publisher
and deployer.
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Familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of defining and configuring component properties and
actions. See Chapter 12 Developing Application Services Components.
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To view examples about policy definition and action, select Library > Policies to view the predefined
policies.
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Verify that a policy version is available in the Application Services library. See Add a Policy to the
Library.
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Create a copy of the policy to preserve the original for future reference and edit the copied version.
Procedure
1 On the Application Services title bar, click the drop-down menu and select Library > Policies.
2 Copy an existing policy version.
a Open a policy version and click Copy in the toolbar.
When you copy a policy, the action script and all of the properties are retained. You cannot
change the name of the existing policy version.
b Change the version number, update the description, and click Save.
The version number and description differentiate the new policy from the parent version.
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