To Store a Resource Offering for Discovery Service Bootstrapping

1. In the OpenSSO Enterprise Console, select the Web Services tab.

2. Under Web Services, click the Discovery Service tab.

3. Choose New under the Resource Offerings for Bootstrapping Resources attribute.

   By default, the resource offering for bootstrapping the Discovery Service is already configured. In order to create a new resource offering, you must first delete the default resource offering.

4. (Optional) Type a description of the resource offering.

5. Enter a URI for the value of the Service Type attribute.

   This field defines the type of service. It is recommended that the value of this attribute be the targetNamespace URI defined in the abstract WSDL description for the service. An example of a valid URI is urn:liberty:disco:2003-08.

6. Enter a URI for the value of the Provider ID attribute.

   This attribute contains the URI of the provider of the service instance. This is useful for resolving trust metadata needed to invoke the service instance. A single physical provider may have multiple provider IDs. An example of a valid URI is http://sample_disco.com.

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   The provider represented by the URI in the Provider ID attribute must also have an entry in the Classes for ResourceIDMapper Plugin attribute.

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7. Click Add Description to define a security mechanism ID.

   For each resource offering, at least one service description must be created.

   1. Select the values for the Security Mechanism ID attribute to define how a web service client can authenticate to a web service provider.

      This field lists the security mechanisms that the service instance supports. Select the security mechanisms you wish to add and click the Add button. To arrange the priority of the list, select the mechanism and use the Move Up or Move Down buttons.

   2. Type a value for the End Point URL.

      This value is the URL of the SOAP-over-HTTP endpoint. The URI scheme must be HTTP or HTTPS as in https://soap.profile-provider.com/soap.

   3. (Optional) Type a value for the SOAP action.

      This field contains the equivalent of the wsdlsoap:soapAction attribute of the wsdlsoap:operation element in the service's concrete WSDL-based description.

   4. Click OK to save the configuration.

8. Check the Options box if there are no options or add a URI to specify options for the resource offering.

   This field lists the options that are available for the resource offering. Options provide hints to a potential requestor about the availability of certain data or operations to a particular offering. The set of possible URIs are defined by the service type, not the Discovery Service. If no option is specified, the service instance does not display any available options. .

9. Select a directive for the resource offering.

   Directives are special entries defined in SOAP headers that can be used to enforce policy-related decisions. You can choose from the following:

   • GenerateBearerToken specifies that a bearer token be generated.

   • AuthenticateRequester must be used with any service description that use SAML for message authentication.

   • EncryptResourceID specifies that the Discovery Service encrypt the resource ID.

   • AuthenticateSessionContext is specified when a Discovery Service provider includes a SAML assertion containing a SessionContextStatement in any future QueryResponse messages.

   • AuthorizeRequester is specified when a Discovery Service provider wants to include a SAML assertion containing a ResourceAccessStatement in any future QueryResponse messages.

   If you want to associate a directive with one or more service descriptions, select the check box for that Description ID. If no service descriptions are selected, the directive is applied to all description elements in the resource offering.

10. Click OK to complete the configuration.