How Are Consumer Applications Represented and Used in CentraSite?
A consumer application is represented in CentraSite by an application asset. An application asset is an instance of the Application asset type, which is one of the predefined types installed with CentraSite. An application asset defines the precise characteristics by which Mediator can identify messages from a specific consumer application at run time.
The ability of Mediator to relate a message to a specific consumer application enables Mediator to:
Indicate the consumer application to which a logged transaction event belongs.
Monitor a virtual service for violations of a service-level agreement (SLA) for a specified consumer application.
Control access to a virtual service at run time (that is, allow only authorized consumer applications to invoke a virtual service).
The following figure shows the log entry for a request that a consumer application has submitted to a virtual service. Note that the entry identifies the consumer application from which the request originated. This identification is enabled by an application asset that has been defined in the CentraSite registry.
