Administering Web resources

A Web resource is a Web server that serves as the backend of a Verify Identity Access WebSEAL junction. An application on the joined Web server can require users to authenticate specifically to the application.

The authentication information, such as user name and password, often differs from the authentication information used by Verify Identity Access. Because of this difference, the junctioned Web server requires an authenticated Verify Identity Access user to log in again, using the user name and password specific to the application on the joined Web server.

You can use the administration API to configure Verify Identity Access so that Verify Identity Access users must authenticate only one time. You must define a Web resource (server) and then define a user-specific resource credential that contains user-specific authentication information for the Web resource.

This section describes how to create, modify, and delete Web resources. Administration of resource credentials is described in Administering resource credentials.

Table 1 lists the methods for administering Web resources.

Table 1. Administering Web resources

FunctionsMethods	Description
ivadmin_ssoweb_create() PDSSOResource.createSSOResource	Creates a single sign-on Web resource.
ivadmin_ssoweb_delete() PDSSOResource.deleteSSOResource	Deletes the specified single sign-on Web resource.
ivadmin_ssoweb_get() PDSSOResource constructor	ReturnsInstantiates the specified single sign-on Web resource.
ivadmin_ssoweb_getdescription() PDSSOResource object.getDescription	Returns the description of the specified single sign-on Web resource.
ivadmin_ssoweb_getid() PDSSOResource object.getId	Returns the name (identifier) of the specified single sign-on Web resource.
ivadmin_ssoweb_list() PDSSOResource.listSSOResources	Returns a list of all the single sign-on Web resource names.

For detailed reference information about these methods, see the Javadoc HTML documentation.