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Configuring policy profiles

Policy profiles are used to configure how Pexip Infinity uses external policy and/or local policy to control Pexip Infinity's call policy and routing decisions.

Each policy profile can be used to:

  • control which types of data (e.g. service configuration, media location, participants avatars etc.) are managed via policy - either by external policy, or by local policy (where local policy is supported for that data type) or by both external and local policy
  • nominate the address of an external policy server to which the external policy API requests are sent
  • specify, per data type, the local policy jinja2 script to be executed against that data (currently service configuration and media location data types only).

You can configure Pexip Infinity to use both external and local policy depending on your requirements. When both external and local policy are enabled, external policy is applied first to retrieve the configuration data from the external system, and then local policy is applied to that retrieved data (which can then conditionally modify that data). See Using external and local policy to control Pexip Infinity behavior for more information.

Each system location is configured with a policy profile and that profile is then used by all of the Conferencing Nodes in that location whenever they need to retrieve configuration data. This means that you can use the same policy profile in all locations (and thus all Conferencing Nodes), or if required you can configure many different profiles with, for example, different local policy scripts or different external policy server URIs, and then assign different policy profiles to different system locations.

Note that if you are using external policy within a system location, you must ensure that each Conferencing Node in that location is able to reach the nominated policy server.

To configure policy profiles:

  1. Go to Call control > Policy profiles.
  2. Select Add Policy profile and then configure that profile. The options are:

    Option Description
    Name The name used to refer to this policy profile in the Pexip Infinity Administrator interface.
    Description An optional description of the policy profile.
    External policy server
    URL

    The URL of the policy server to use for all external policy API requests from this profile, for example https://policy.example.com/path.

    You can only configure one address URL per policy server.

    If the request is over HTTPS, Pexip Infinity must trust the certificate presented by the policy server.

    Username

    Password

    Optional fields where you can specify the credentials required to access the external policy server.
    Avatar policy
    Enable external avatar lookup If enabled, requests are sent to the external policy server to fetch avatar images to represent directory contacts and conference participants.
    Service configuration policy
    Enable external service configuration lookup If enabled, requests are sent to the external policy server to fetch service configuration data (VMRs, Virtual Receptions, Pexip Distributed Gateway calls etc).
    Apply local policy If enabled, the service configuration retrieved from the local database or an external policy server is processed by the local policy script (which may change the service configuration or cause the call to be rejected).
    Script

    Only applies if Apply local policy is selected.

    Enter a jinja2 script that takes the existing service configuration (if any) and optionally modifies or overrides the service settings.

    Media location policy
    Enable external media location lookup If enabled, requests are sent to the external policy server to fetch the system location to use for media allocation.
    Apply local policy If enabled, the media location configuration retrieved from the local database or an external policy server is processed by the local policy script (which may change the media location configuration).
    Script

    Only applies if Apply local policy is selected.

    Enter a jinja2 script that takes the existing media location configuration and optionally modifies or overrides the location settings.

    Directory
    Enable external directory lookup If enabled, requests are sent to the external policy server to fetch directory information (that can be used by some Infinity Connect clients to display a phonebook).
    Registration requests
    Enable external registration policy If enabled, requests are sent to the external policy server to determine whether a device alias is allowed to register to a Conferencing Node.
  3. Select Save.
  4. Go to Platform configuration > Locations.
  5. Select each location in turn and specify the Policy profile that the Conferencing Nodes in that location should use when making policy decisions.

See Using external and local policy to control Pexip Infinity behavior for complete information.