https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/What-does-the-Nifi-log-entry-quot-Skipping-policy-for/m-p/313063#M225402 <P><a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/54320">@alexwillmer</a>&nbsp;<BR /><BR />NiFi does not support using wildcards in all scenarios.<BR /><BR />Access decisions would include authorization against specific endpoints.&nbsp;<BR />Not access decisions that may not work with wildcards may include some buttons remaining greyed out.<BR /><BR />So if you encounter a NiFi Resource Identifier is not giving you the expected result with a wildcard, try setting the policy explicitly and see if desired outcome is observed.&nbsp; The following article provides insight in to the expected access provided by each NiFi Resource Identifier:<BR /><A href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/NiFi-Ranger-based-policy-descriptions/ta-p/246586" target="_blank">https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/NiFi-Ranger-based-policy-descriptions/ta-p/246586</A><BR /><BR />NiFi actually downloads the policy definitions from Ranger and all authorizations are done based on the last downloaded set of policies (NiFi runs a background thread to check for updated policy definitions from Ranger).&nbsp; NiFi does not send a request to verify authorization to Ranger itself.<BR /><BR /></P><P>Hope this helps,</P><P>Matt</P> Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:35:59 GMT MattWho 2021-03-15T22:35:59Z