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Global Policy Processing

Policies are evaluated as described in Policy Processing. In addition, any global rules contained in global policies will fire if the following conditions are met:

• The requested resource belongs to a domain on which global policy processing was not disabled
• The requested resource matches the absolute resource filter defined for the global rule. It is important, that in the case of global rule the filter will be obtained from the rule (not from the realm).
• The event that occurs is the same as that defined for the global rule.
• The requested resource is protected by the same agent or agent group, which was specified for the rule.

Whenever an authentication or an authorization event happens the responses defined for the fired global rules are added to the list of other responses.