Adding an Application to Your Asset 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 add an Application asset to the catalog from scratch, meaning that you create the asset and set its attributes manually.
To add an Application asset to the catalog
1. In CentraSite Control, go to Asset Catalog > Browse.
2. Click Add Asset.
3. In the Add Asset dialog box, provide the required information for each of the displayed data fields.
Field | Description |
Type | Select the asset type, Application. |
Name | Optional. Name of the Application asset. Note: | This is the name that users will see when they view this Application in the CentraSite User Interfaces. Therefore, we recommend that you specify a meaningful name for each Application. |
An Application asset name can contain any characters (including spaces), and must be unique within an organization. |
Description | Optional. The description for the Application. Note: | This is the description information that users will see when they view this Application in the CentraSite User Interfaces. Therefore, we recommend that you specify a meaningful description for each Application. |
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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.) If you select an organization other than your own organization, you will nevertheless be the owner of the asset. Important: | Select the organization carefully. You cannot change the organization assignment later. You can, however, export a Application asset from one organization and import it to another. |
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Initial Version | Optional. An identifier for the initial version of the Application. This is the user-defined version, as opposed to the automatically assigned system version. 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 asset. The default is 1.0. If the versioning feature is disabled for the Service asset type, the field is nevertheless displayed, thus allowing you to assign an identifier for this first version.0 |
4. Click OK.
The newly created Application asset is added to the CentraSite Registry Repository.
5. Configure the extended attributes of the Application asset.
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