Managing Service Providers and Applications

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Managing Application Groups

The following sections describe how to administer application groups:

All management operations are performed using Network Gatekeeper Management Console in the managed object ESPA_access.

 


Listing application groups

  1. Use Operation: listApplicationGroups. Based on Attribute: NumberOfApplicationGroups (r), which displays the number of registered application groups, choose a suitable offset (start listing) and length (how many to list) for the list, and click Invoke.
  2. The selected range of existing application group IDs are displayed in alphabetic order

  3. If necessary, browse the list by repeating the above steps with a different offset and length.

 


Creating an application group

The application group is associated with an SLA that can be used by one or more application accounts. An application group SLA must have been created, see Defining Service Provider Level and Application Level Service Agreements.

To create an application group:

  1. Choose a suitable (descriptive) ID for the application group according to your naming conventions.
  2. Verify that the application group ID is not already in use, see Listing application groups.
  3. Use Operation: addApplicationGroupWithSLAUrl.
Note: The Operation: addApplicationGroupWithSLAString can be used as an alternative.

The result of the operation is displayed.

The application group is now created.

Note: To add application accounts to the application group, see Creating an application account.

 


Viewing information about an application group

Follow the steps below to view information about an application group. The following types of information can be viewed independently of each other:

View data about the application group

To view all data about an application group:

  1. Find the application group ID, see Listing application groups.
  2. Use Operation: getApplicationGroup.
  3. The application group's SLA and OAM properties, if any, are displayed.

View SLA file for the application group

To view only the SLA:

  1. Find the application group ID, see Listing application groups.
  2. Use Operation: getSLAForApplicationGroup.
  3. The application group's SLA is displayed.

Get number of application accounts in an application group

To get the number of applications associated with a certain application group:

  1. Find the application group ID, see Listing application groups.
  2. Use Operation: getNumberOfApplicationsInApplicationGroup.
  3. The number of application accounts related to the service provider group is displayed.

List application accounts associated with application group

To get a list of the names of application accounts related to the application group:

  1. Find out how many application accounts are associated with the application group, see Get number of application accounts in an application group.
  2. Use Operation: listApplicationAccountsInGroup. Base offset and length on the outcome of Get number of application accounts in an application group.
  3. The selected range application account IDs is displayed in alphabetic order.

  4. If necessary, browse the list by repeating the above steps with a different offset and length.

 


Registering an updated SLA for an application group

To register an updated SLA for an application group:

  1. Find the application group ID, see Listing application groups
  2. View current SLA for the application group, see View SLA file for the application group.
  3. Use Operation: updateApplicationGroupSLAUrl.
  4. Note: The Operation: updateApplicationGroupSLAString can be used as an alternative.

    The application group SLA is now updated and in use.

    Note: To add application accounts to the application group, see Creating an application account.

 


Deleting an application group

WARNING: Deleting an application group also deletes all related application accounts and application instance group IDs.

To delete an application group:

  1. Find the application group ID, see Listing application groups
  2. Use Operation: deleteApplicationGroup.
  3. The application group and its related application accounts and application instance group IDs are now deleted.


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