[aznapi-admin-services] stanza

An administration service plug-in enables applications to do application-specific administration tasks.

The administration service plug-in is accessed by a calling application with one of the ISAM administration interfaces.

The calling application can be an administrative utility such as the Web Portal Manager or pdadmin utility. The calling application can be a custom-built application that uses the ISAM administration APIs.

The administration service maps the administration API calls to the corresponding administration service API calls and carries out the requested action. Each administration service plug-in is a stand-alone module that is dynamically loaded into the authorization service. The parameters for configuring Security Verify Access administration service plug-ins are declared in the [aznapi-admin-services] stanza of these configuration files provided by ISAM:

• The ivmgrd.conf configuration file for the policy server
• The [instance-]ivacld.conf configuration file for the authorization server
• The configuration files for the configured administration service plug-ins for your resource managers

  The aznAPI.conf configuration file is provided with ISAM as a sample file for creating our own resource manager configuration file. Developers of service plug-ins typically provide the standard functions. Before implementing service plug-ins, read and thoroughly understand the concepts in the Authorization C API Developer Reference.

• service-id
  This stanza entry defines the authorization API service for functions that enable a plug-in to obtain the contents of a defined portion of the protected object hierarchy. Service functions can also enable a plug-in to define application-specific administration tasks that also return commands that do those tasks.

Parent topic: Configuration file stanza reference