Adding an Application Asset to the Catalog
To add assets to an organization's asset catalog, you must belong to a role that has the Create Assets or Manage Assets permission for that organization.
Note: | By default, users with the CentraSite Administrator or Asset Administrator role have this permission. |
You create an Application asset to specify the consumer applications that are authorized to consume a particular Service, BPEL Process, or XML Schema.
The Application asset type is one of the predefined asset types installed with CentraSite. Application assets are used by the policy-enforcement point (PEP) to determine from which consumer application a request for an asset originated. An Application asset defines the precise characteristics by which the PEP can identify or authenticate messages from a specific consumer application at run time.
In CentraSite Control, you can add a Application asset to the catalog in one of the following ways:
You can create an Application asset from scratch, meaning that you create the Application asset (and set its attributes) manually.
You can create an Application asset on-the-fly, meaning that you create the Application asset on-the-fly from the details page of the asset you want to consume using the
Consume Asset dialog.
To add an Application asset to the catalog
1. In the CentraSite Business UI activity bar, click Create Asset.
This opens the Create Asset wizard.
2. In the Basic Information profile, provide the required information for each of the displayed data fields.
In this field... | Specify... |
Name | Name of the Application asset. Note: | This is the name that users will see when they view this Application asset in the CentraSite User Interfaces. Therefore, we recommend that you specify a meaningful name for Application Service. |
An Application asset name can contain any characters (including spaces), and must be unique within an organization. |
Type | The asset type, Application. |
Organization | The organization to which you want to add the Application. (The Organization list only displays organizations for which you have the Manage Assets permission or at least the Create Assets permission.) |
Initial Version | (Optional). The version identifier for the Application asset. You can enter any string in this field, that is, the version identifier does not need to be numeric. You can also leave the field blank. You can later create new versions of the Application asset. The default is 1.0. Examples: 0.0a
1.0.0 (beta)
Pre-release 001
V1-2007.04.30 |
Description | (Optional).. A comment or descriptive information about the new application asset. |
3. Click Next.
You cannot navigate to the next screen unless all the required attributes have been set.
4. In the Preview panel, review the basic information for the Application before you actually add to the CentraSite registry.
5. Click Save.
An Application asset instance is created in the specified organization and registered with the CentraSite registry/repository. The details page for the Application asset that you just created is displayed.
6. Configure the extended attributes of the Application asset as described later in this topic.
