Manage the UDDI registry

Use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console or the JMX management interface to manage all the policies and properties of the UDDI registry.

Use JMX to monitor and configure UDDI registries programmatically, and use the UDDI registry administrative interface.

To manage UDDI nodes programmatically, we can use the following interfaces and tools:

• UDDI registry administrative (JMX) interface

  The UDDI registry administrative (JMX) interface provides a Java API we can use to manage runtime configuration settings to control UDDI registry runtime behavior, such as setting the maximum number of results that UDDI users can receive for inquiry requests, or creating publish limits for UDDI publishers. Sample client code is provided for you to build on.

• User-defined value sets

  The UDDI Version 3 registry provides tools we can use to manage our own categorization value sets, including loading value set data into a UDDI registry node. If we add custom value sets, UDDI entities can be categorized more specifically when they are published, so that clients can find specific data more efficiently.

• UDDI Utility Tools

  The UDDI Utility Tools is a suite of functions and a Java API that we can use to promote v2 entities from one UDDI registry to another while retaining entity keys. This capability is particularly useful for publishing canonical tModels with a predefined key.

To manage UDDI registries using the WAS administrative console, start from the UDDI link in the navigation pane of the administrative console. If administrative security is enabled, we must log in to the administrative console and supply a valid user ID and password, to use the UDDI management functions. We can complete the following operations:

Tasks

• View and manage the status of all UDDI nodes in a cell.
• Initialize UDDI nodes with required settings.
• Configure general properties that affect UDDI runtime behavior.
• Manage UDDI policy settings.
• Create, view and update UDDI publishers.
• Create, view and update publisher tiers that limit how many UDDI entries can be published.
• View and manage the status of value sets.

Subtopics

• Back up and restore the UDDI registry database
  
• UDDI node collection
  
• UDDI node settings
  
• Value set collection
  
• Value set settings
  
• Tier collection
  
• UDDI Tier settings
  
• UDDI Publisher collection
  
• Create UDDI Publishers
  
• UDDI Publisher settings
  
• Policy groups
  
• UDDI keying policy settings
  
• UDDI node API policy settings
  
• UDDI user policy settings
  
• UDDI data custody policy settings
  
• UDDI value set policy settings
  
• UDDI node miscellaneous settings
  

Use administrative programs (JMX)

Initializing the UDDI registry node

UDDI node settings

UDDI Publisher collection

Tier collection

Value set collection