Consumer Provisioning and Consumer-Provider Relationship Tracking

The term consumer provisioning means providing users with the ability to consume assets. Consumer provisioning with CentraSite enables you to control and monitor who consumes assets.

A consumer who is identified in an application asset. For more information, see Creating a Consumer Application.

CentraSite users with the proper permissions can register themselves or other users as consumers of specified assets. That is, users can request permission to access specified assets in the registry. The owners of the assets may approve or reject such requests.

Specify the registered consumers in the asset's Consumers profile.

After users, groups and/or applications are approved to consume an asset, you must specify those consumers in the asset's Consumers profile. The Consumers profile appears in the asset's detail page.

Because consumers are registered, CentraSite can easily track consumer-provider relationships. The purpose of tracking consumer-provider relationships is to identify:

The artifacts in the registry that will be affected if an asset is not available or must be changed.

The organizations that need to be informed in such situations.

You can track consumer-provider relationships in the following ways:

If you are the owner of an asset, and another user has made a request to register as a consumer of the asset, you can view the request (see Viewing Consumer Registration Requests).

If you have made a request to register as a consumer of an asset owned by another user, you can view the status of the request (see Viewing Consumer Registration Requests).

Generate reports on consumer-provider relationships.

See CentraSite User’s Guide .

Inspect the “Impact Analysis” view of the assets.

You can view associations between the registry objects to identify the impact when updating or deleting an asset in the catalog. For more information, see the CentraSite User’s Guide .