Introduction
The register as consumer feature provides the following important advantages to CentraSite registry:
A secure consumer provisioning that provides users with the ability to consume assets.
An effective consumer-provider relationship tracking that enables you to control and monitor who consumes assets.
A consumer is the user who is identified in an application asset. Typically, an application asset specifies the consumer applications that are authorized to consume a particular service, BPEL process or XML schema.
For information on how to create an application asset, see the CentraSite User’s Guide .
To control and monitor which application assets consume assets, you:
Register application assets to consume assets. CentraSite users with the proper permissions can register application assets as consumers of specified assets. That is, users can request permission to associate any consumer application with a specified asset in the registry. The owners of the assets may approve or reject such requests.
Specify the registered consumers in the asset's Basic Information profile. After applications are approved to consume an asset, CentraSite automatically updates those consumers in the asset's Basic Information profile.
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.
