Discovery Agent Attributes

The Discovery Agent profile holds a trust authority configuration that is used by the web services' client/profile to communicate with the Liberty Discovery service for web service lookups, registration, and for obtaining security credentials.

Group

The Group mechanism allows you to define a collection of similar types of agents. The group must be defined before including the particular agent into a collection.

Password

Defines the password for the Discovery Agent.

Password Confirm

Confirm the password.

Status

Defines whether the agent will be active or inactive in the system. By default, this attribute is set to active, meaning that the agent will participate in securing outbound web service requests from web service clients and will validate web service responses from a web service provider.

Location of Agent Configuration Repository

This attribute defines the agent location of the configuration repository for the Discovery Agent.

Private Key Alias

This attribute defines the private certificate key alias that is used to sign the web service request or decrypt the web service response.

Discovery Service End Point

This attribute defines the Discovery service end point where the trust authority client establishes communications for service registrations and lookups.

Authentication Web Service End Point

This attribute defines the authentication service end point which the web services client uses to authenticate using the end user's SSOToken to receive the Discovery service resource offering (also referred to as bootstrap resource offering.)