Importing an Exported Policy
The Privitar Platform can create Policies by importing previously exported Policy files. To import a Policy:
Select Policies from the Navigation sidebar. The Policies page is displayed.
Select Import from the Actions list box. The Import Policy dialog box is displayed.
Click on the browse... link to select a Policy file to upload, or drag and drop a file directly on to the dialog box.
Policies can be imported by uploading a Policy or a Job file in JSON format.
The Import Policy dialog box is updated with details about the imported Policy.
Review the name of the Schema and Policy to be imported. There are two options for imprting the Policy:
Select Import the included schema to import the Schema described in the file as a new Privitar Schema
Select Link with existing schema to re-use a Schema definition already in Privitar. (This option is only available if at least one compatible Schema is stored in Privitar.)
Click on Import to proceed.
Privitar will look in the Rules Library for the Rules referenced in the file:
If a compatible match (that is, a Rule with the same name and definition) is found, the existing rule will be re-used by the imported policy.
If correspondingly named Rules exist, but their definitions are different from the definitions in the file, the conflicting rules will be listed in the Import dialog box. The following actions are available to resolve the conflicts:
Select Resolve by creating new Rules to import the Rules from the file using new names.
Select Resolve by updating the Rules Library to overwrite the definition of the existing Rules in the Rules Library. Note that this operation may produce unexpected results in existing active Protected Data Domains that are using the Rules, including those owned by other Teams.
Select Resolve by using the current Rules from the Rules Library to use existing Rules and ignore the changes in the file.
Click on Import to complete the import of the Policy.
Note
The imported JSON file has to conform to the specific Privitar configuration Policy format. It is not possible to import files from previous versions of Privitar. For more information about importing or exporting other Privitar objects, see Importing and Exporting Configurations.