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Managing Service Provider Accounts

The following sections describe how to administer service provider accounts:

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

 

Creating a service provider account

To create a service provider account:

Note: The service provider group to which this service provider account is to be connected must be created before the service provider account is created. See Creating and maintaining service provider and application accounts for more information on the relationship.
  1. Find an existing service provider group ID, see Listing service provider groups.
  2. Choose a suitable (descriptive) ID for the service provider account according to your naming conventions.
  3. Verify that the service provider account ID is not already being used, see List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.
  4. Use Operation: addServiceProviderAccount.

    5. The service provider account is now created.

    Note: To add application accounts to the service provider account, see Creating an application account.
    Note: The service provider account must be activated before the service provider's applications can access any services in the network, see Activating a service provider account. The account is activated when created.

 

Activating a service provider account

Note: The service provider account must be activated before any of its applications can start accessing services in the network.

To activate a service provider account:

  1. Find the service provider account ID, see List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.
  2. View current state of the service provider account, see View current state of a service provider account.
  3. Use Operation: activateServiceProviderAccount.

    4. The service provider account's current state is now Activated.

 

Viewing information about a service provider account

Follow the steps below to view information about a service provider account. The following types of information can be viewed independently of each other:

Get Account Data for a service provider account

  1. Find the service provider account ID, see List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.
  2. Use Operation: getServiceProviderAccount.

    3. The related service provider group ID, the Service Provider Reference, if any, and the account's OAM properties, if any, are displayed.

View current state of a service provider account

  1. Find the service provider account ID, see List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.
  2. Use Operation: getStateForServiceProviderAccount.

    3. The service provider account's current state is displayed. See Table 2-1 for information about the state.

View SLA for a service provider account

The SLA is correlated to the service provider group, see View SLA for the service provider group.

List application accounts for a service provider

See List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.

 

Changing the SLA associated with a service provider account

To change the SLA associated with a service provider account, the account must be assigned to a different service provider group, see below.

(As an alternative, the SLA for the whole service provider group can be updated, see Registering an updated SLA for a service provider group.)

  1. Find the new service provider group, see Listing service provider groups.
  2. Use Operation: updateServiceProviderAccount from the Select An Operation drop-down list.

    3. The result of the operation is displayed.

 

Logging out a service provider account

WARNING: This procedure logs out all applications related to this service provider account. To log out only the applications related to an application account, see Logging out an application account. To log out a single application instance group ID, see Logging out an application instance group ID.

To log out a service provider account, including all applications connected to the service provider account:

  1. Find the service provider account ID, see List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.
  2. Use Operation: logoutServiceProviderAccount.

    3. All applications and application instance group IDs associated with the service provider account are logged out.

 

Deactivating a service provider account

To deactivate, or temporarily stop the flow of traffic to and from, the service provider's applications:

  1. Find the service provider account ID, see List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.
  2. View the service provider account's current state, see View current state of a service provider account.
  3. Use Operation: deactivateServiceProviderAccount.

    4. The service provider account is deactivated.

    See Activating a service provider account for information on how to activate the account.

 

Deleting a service provider account

WARNING: Deleting the service provider account also deletes all related application accounts and application instance group IDs.

To delete a service provider account:

  1. Find the service provider account ID, by following the instructions in List service provider accounts associated with a service provider group.
  2. View the service provider account's current state, see View current state of a service provider account.
  3. Use Operation: deleteServiceProviderAccount.

    4. The service provider account and all applications and application instance group IDs are deleted.


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