This section provides a high-level overview of the policy management features
available in Policy Studio and Policy Center:
Avoid the Island Mentality
Policy Studio ensures that Oracle customers do not have to manage a group of isolated
policy islands, each in an individual Enterprise Gateway. Instead, when connected to a Policy Center
server, you can use Policy Studio's policy management features to centrally manage policies
deployed on different Enterprise Gateways.
Centralized SOA Policy Creation
Policies contain specific assertions about operational attributes such as
authentication and authorization, encryption and signatures, routing,
transformations, and versioning. Policy Studio enables policies to be created,
and versioned. When connected to a Policy Center server, you can then push out
this configuration to Enterprise Gateways that have been deployed throughout the
organization.
Lifecycle Policy Management
Policies managed by Policy Studio are readily transferable across multiple Enterprise Gateways.
This enables policies to be developed in a testing environment, and then be proofed
in a staging environment designed to replicate production systems, prior to going
into production. Using a Policy Center server, policies can be easily migrated between
testing Enterprise Gateways, staging machines, and production Enterprise Gateways.
Policy Rollback
Using Policy Studio, policies can be rolled back to revert to previous policy versions.
This is a safeguard for policy updates. It also enables systems to be restored to policy
versions that were in place at a certain date for testing or auditing purposes.
Role-based Policy Control
Policy Studio administrators are assigned preferential access to policies, including
read, write, and update permissions.
Centralized Logging
Metrics on Web Services usage across multiple Enterprise Gateways are centrally
stored by Policy Center. This centralized logging allows reports to be
generated by Service Monitor. This enables all application networking activity
to be viewed together in centralized Web-based reports.
Fast Provisioning of XML Networking Infrastructure
Policy Studio policy management features enable new instances of Enterprise Gateways to
be created and deployed quickly. This is particularly relevant for VMWare-based
deployments of software-based Enterprise Gateways.
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