Activating the User Visibility Policy

Once you specify the User Visibility Rules you need to activate the User Identities Derived Relationship Family and the User Visibility Policy MAC Policy. You can modify or add User Visibility Rules to an active User Visibility Policy.

The User Visibility Policy MAC Policy is responsible for tracking all Identities related to a User. In order for the User Visibility Policy to take effect, this MAC Policy must be in the active state.

Use the following procedure to activate the Derived Relationship Family:

1. Go to Contents --> Administration --> Access Control --> MAC Policies. The menu shown in Figure 4 appears.

Figure 4.

2. Click Search MAC Policies to access the search grid.
3. Open the User Visibility Policy MAC Policy in the search grid.
4. Click Activate in the Actions menu to promote the MAC Policy Item to the Active state.

Figure 5.

The User Identity Derived Relationship Family is responsible for tracking all Identities related to a User. In order for the User Visibility Policy to take effect, this Derived Relationship must be in the active state.

Use the following procedure to activate the Derived Relationship Family:

1. Go to Contents --> Administration --> Configuration --> Derived Relationship Family. The menu shown in Figure 6appears.

Figure 6.

2. Click Search Derived Relationships. The search grid appears.
3. Open the User Identities Derived Relationship Family from the search grid.
4. Click the Promote button. The Promote User Identities dialog box appears.

Figure 7.

5. Select Persisting and click the green arrow to promote the Derived Relationship Family. The system then performs all the necessary calculations and the Derived Relationship Family is automatically promoted to the Active State once the Persistence operation is complete. You can monitor the progress of the persistence Process by observing the Persistence section of the Derived Relationship Family form.

Figure 8.