This is a standard RowStatus for creating, activating, or removing rows in the IKE Policy table, per its description. An admin sets this to active once the hash, encryption, authentication, and lifetime fields of a reusable phase-1 policy are configured, making the policy available for crypto maps to reference. For example, after building a new 'ike-policy-strong' entry with tripleDesCbc and hmacSha, an admin would set this to active before any crypto map can successfully reference it.