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Tutorial 2: Defining Application Resources

This section contains the following sections:

 


Overview

In order to secure an application using ALES, the application’s resources must be defined in the ALES database. In many cases, application resources are defined using a hierarchical tree of Resources.

The Resource tree used to define application resources may be simple or quite detailed. This depends solely on the application being secured and policy model used to secure it.

 


Scenario

This tutorial leads you through the steps of creating a simple Resource tree to represent the Admission System’s patient roster as described in Scenario on page 1-1.

Resource
Description
ParkerHospital
Represents the entire hospital in ALES.
AdmissionsSystem
Represents the Admissions System in ALES.
roster_index.jsp
Represents the JSP page that provides the Patient Roster data.

 


Create the Resources

  1. If you have not already done so, start the Administration Server and launch the Entitlements Management Tool.
  2. In the left navigation pane, select the Resources node and click New at the bottom of the pane.

  3. On the New Child Node window, enter ParkerHospital in the Name field and select the Allow Virtual Resource checkbox. Then click OK.
  4. This returns you to the main window where you’ll see ParkerHospital appearing as a new resource under the Resource node.

  5. Returning to the left navigation pane, select the new ParkerHospital resource and click New.
  6. On the New Child Node window, enter AdmissionsSystem in the Name field and check the Allow Virtual Resource checkbox. Then click OK.
  7. Returning to the left navigation pane, select the new AdmissionsSystem resource and click New.
  8. On the New Child Node window, enter url in the Name field and check the Allow Virtual Resource checkbox. Then click OK.
  9. Returning to the left navigation pane, select the new url resource and click New.
  10. On the New Child Node window, enter roster_index.jsp in the Name field and click OK.
  11. Note that roster_index.jsp would be the actual name of the web page where users access the patient roster.

 


Save the Resources

After creating the Resources as described, return to the main window and click Save Changes.

 


Summary

This tutorial showed how to create the Resource tree needed to define the Admissions System’s patient roster. When complete, the Resource tree should look like this:

The next tutorial demonstrates how to create Identities (Groups and Users) to represent the Patient Roster users.


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