Managing Credentials on the Credential Stores Page

Use this page to manage the credential stores for your service instances.

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Credential Stores are shown by name on a table, along with their read-only status (true or false) Page functionality includes:

• Credential Map; use the drop-down control to select the credential map you want to manage. User credentials are stored in any of three maps:

  • user.custom.map; for storing credentials to which user applications have access. All the authenticated users assigned the role UserMapAccessRole will be able to read credentials from this map. .

  • oracle.wsm.security; for storing credentials that web service clients can use.

  • user.public.map; for storing credentials to which user applications can have anonymous access. Users will be able to read credentials from this map without authentication.

• Add New; adds a new credential to the credential map:

  1. Click Add New to open the Add New credential map dialog.

     
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  2. Enter the following and click OK.

     • Key; descriptive name to use when retrieving the credential.

     • User and Password; users and passwords stored in the credential map that a customer application can retrieve by using the specified Key to authenticate to a service.

     • Description; an optional description of the credential map.

  3. Click OK.

• Delete; removes the selected credential:

  1. Select the credential you want to delete and click Delete.

  2. Click OK to confirm the deletion.

Other controls on the page also allow you to refresh the page and list credentials based on specific filtering criteria.