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Manage Policy Lifecycle in Secure Workload Address Policy Complexities When Consumer and Provider Are in Different Scopes: Policy Options (Advanced) Create Cross-Scope Policies Policy Requests Automate Handling of Cross-Scope Policy Requests

Last updated: Jun 09, 2025

Automate Handling of Cross-Scope Policy Requests

Policy requests are generated when you create cross-scope policies using the method described in (Advanced) Create Cross-Scope Policies.

There are several options to reduce the number of policy requests that are generated when creating cross-scope policies:

Table 1. Options for Automatically Handling Policy Requests

To

Do This

Specify handling of policy requests between specific consumer-provider pairs

See Auto-pilot Rules.

You must have the required privileges.

Automatically create all required policies for providers for all cross-scope policies created during policy discovery in a particular workspace

When you start an automatic policy discovery run, enable the Auto accept outgoing policy connectors option in the Advanced Configurations section.

This option is available to root scope owners and site admins only.

For details, see:

Advanced Configurations for Automatic Policy Discovery and

Auto Accept Policy Connectors

Specify default handling for all policy requests from all workspaces

On the Default Policy Discovery Config page, enable the Auto accept outgoing policy connectors option in the Advanced Configurations section.

This option is available to root scope owners and site admins only.

For details, see:

Default Policy Discovery Config and

Advanced Configurations for Automatic Policy Discovery and

Auto Accept Policy Connectors

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