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2. Click on the name of the Virtual Directory (“New Virtual Directory” by default) to access the Virtual
Directory settings page. On this screen you can make several changes to the REST policy, including
selecting the Listener and Remote policies to associate, changing the virtual directory path, and
enabling adding Access Control.
IMPORTANT
for REST and HTML policies, it is recommended to change the default Filter
Expression on the Virtual Directory page to simply
.*
(that’s, dot star) which is a wildcard value that
allows all characters after the virtual path. Without this change, requests with query parameters in
the URI will be rejected by Sentry.
3. Review the Associated Network Policies
1. Navigate to the Gateway>>Gateway Policies>>Network Policies page of the WebAdmin interface.
Here you will see the HTTP Listener and HTTP Remote policies generated while creating the REST
Policy.
A Listener Policy can be of many different protocol types including HTTP, FTP, MQ, EMS, sFTP,
and more. A listener policy does the following:
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Defines the IP and Port and the Protocol (HTTP, HTTPS, etc.)
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Defines Get Queue to listen for inbound messages (MQ, EMS, JMS, etc)
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Provides Policy level IP filtering
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Provides Credential Based Access Control
A Remote Policy can be of many different protocol types including HTTP, FTP, MQ, EMS, sFTP,
and more. A remote policy does the following:
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Defines the remote IP and Port that Sentry will communicate with (HTTP, HTTPs, etc)
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Defines Send Queue to publish processed messages (MQ, EMS, JMS, etc)
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Defines Failover and Load-Balancing for Back-End services (Group Remote Policies)
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Provides back-end protocol authentication
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Provides optional response processing (applying policies to the response document)
