Modifying the Session and User Service Configurations

Understanding and Editing the User Service

The User Service enables applications to do the following:
  • create, locate, maintain, and aggregate information about users of the SAS Foundation Services.
  • store and retrieve User Context objects for sharing between applications. The User Context contains the user's active repository connections, identities, and profile.
  • manage and access user profiles. A profile is a collection of name/value pairs that specify preferences and configuration or initialization data for a user for a particular application.
  • access group profiles. A group profile specifies preferences and configuration or initialization data for a group of users for a particular application.
For more information, see com.sas.services.user in the SAS Foundation Services class documentation at http://support.sas.com/rnd/javadoc/93.
The User Service uses a user context to hold the user's information for connections, identities, and profile. The profile then contains application profile data for the user. The User Service configuration consists of the following:
users
specify the credentials that are associated with this User Service. The user definition consists of the user ID, password, and authentication domain of the user.
profiles
contain a collection of name/value pairs that specify preferences and initialization data for a user of an application. The profile definition contains the name of the associated application, where the profile is located, the class and type of the profile, and a filter used to locate the profile.

Configure the User Service

To configure the User Service, perform the following steps:
  1. In the SAS Management Console navigation tree, locate and select the User Service that you want to modify. Right-click the User Service, and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The User Service properties window appears.
  2. Select the Service Configuration tab. Click Configuration. The User Service Configuration window appears.
  3. On the Authentication tab, specify the default authentication domain.
  4. On the Users tab, and click Add to add a user, or select a user and click Edit to edit a user. Click Select login to select a metadata login definition, or enter the following information:
    ID
    specifies the user ID of the user.
    Password
    specifies the password needed for the user to log on to the specified authentication domain.
    Confirm Password
    confirms the password that you specified in the Password field.
    Domain
    specifies the authentication domain for which the user ID is valid.
    Click OK to return to the User Service Configuration window.
  5. On the Profiles tab, click Add to add a profile, or select a profile and click Edit to edit a profile. Enter the following information:
    Application
    specifies the application whose profile is specified.
    Domain URL
    specifies the location of the repository where the application profile is stored.
    Class
    specifies the class associated with the profile.
    Type
    specifies the profile type. If you are NOT using a custom profile class, leave this field blank.
    Filter
    specifies information to help locate the correct profile. If you are NOT using a custom profile class, leave this field blank.
    Click OK to return to the User Service Configuration window.
  6. (Optional) Enter the following information about the LDAP tab:
    People
    specifies the distinguished name (DN) for the context in LDAP that contains user metadata.
    Groups
    specifies the DN for the context in LDAP that contains group metadata.
    Credentials
    specifies the location in LDAP that contains credential information.
  7. (Optional) Specify consumers for the User service. On the Consumers tab, specify a name for each consumer and then select which resources in the service configuration are consumed.
  8. When you are finished adding User Service configuration information, click OK to save the User Service configuration to a metadata repository.

Understanding and Editing the Session Service

The Session Service enables applications to do the following:
  • create a session context. A session context is a control structure that maintains state information within a bound session, facilitating resource management, and context passing.
  • bind objects to a session context.
  • use the session context as a convenience container for passing multiple contexts.
  • use the session context as a convenience container for passing other services, such as User Services and Logging Services.
  • notify bound objects when they are removed from the session context or when the session context is destroyed, so that objects can perform any necessary cleanup.
For more information, see com.sas.services.session in the SAS Foundation Services class documentation at http://support.sas.com/rnd/javadoc/93.
When the Session Service initializes, it discovers the Logging Service, and obtains a default logging context. The Session Service then uses the Session Service configuration to determine whether to bind to a user context when creating the root session context:
  • If the Session Service deployment configuration specifies a user context name, the Session Service discovers the User Service and obtains the default user context. The Session Service then creates a default root session context that is bound to this default user context.
  • If the Session Service deployment configuration does not specify a user context name, then the Session Service creates a default root session context that is not bound to any user context.
Applications can then use the root session context to track shared resources that are global to the application and to obtain the initialized logging context and default user context (if one was specified).

Configure the Session Service

To configure the Session Service, perform the following steps:
  1. In the SAS Management Console navigation tree, locate and select the Session Service that you want to modify. Right-click the Session Service and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The Session Service properties window appears.
  2. Select the Service Configuration tab and click Configuration. The Session Service Configuration window appears.
  3. On the General tab, specify the default name for the user context. Specify the time-out for the session context.
  4. (Optional) Specify consumers for the Session service. On the Consumers tab, specify a name for each consumer and then select which resources in the service configuration are consumed.
  5. Click OK to return to the Session Service Configuration window.
  6. Click OK to save the Session Service configuration to the metadata repository.
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