Starting and Stopping the Policy Manager

First ensure that the Anjuna Policy Manager is properly installed. See Installing the Policy Manager for more information about installing it.

Before you follow the instructions in this section, make sure that your shell environment has definitions for the variables needed by the Anjuna SGX Runtime. To learn more about how to set up your shell environment for use with the Anjuna SGX Runtime, see the section Setting up the Shell Environment.

To start the Anjuna Policy Manager, run:

This command starts the Policy Manager Server, which is then available for Anjuna SGX Runtime connections.

When the Anjuna Policy Manager starts, it displays the following message:

The end of this message contains important configuration information. To configure the Anjuna SGX Runtime to connect to the Anjuna Policy Manager server, you must configure the Anjuna SGX Runtime with the information in lines 1-7 of the output shown above.

To use it, you must add those lines to the manifest template for the Anjuna SGX Runtime. The manifest template is a file that is automatically created by the Anjuna SGX Runtime when you configure an application to run in a secure enclave. For more information about the manifest template and how to use it, see Configure Applications for Anjuna.

The manifest template is a file named manifest.template.yaml. If you don’t have this file, either because you have not configured the Anjuna SGX Runtime before, or because the file has been moved or deleted, you can create a new one by running

You can then add the referenced lines of the output shown above to the manifest template to configure the Anjuna SGX Runtime to connect to the Anjuna Policy Manager.

To stop the Anjuna Policy Manager, run:

To find out whether the Anjuna Policy Manager is running, run:

If Anjuna Policy Manager is running, you will see the following message:

Otherwise, you will see this message: