Enabling Providers for Message Security

To enable message security for the Application Server, you first specify a provider to be used by default on the server side and a provider to be used by default on the client side for any application for which a specific provider has not been bound. After you enable the default providers for message security, you also need to enable the providers used by your clients or the Application Server will reject your requests. Information for enabling the providers used by clients is discussed in "Enabling Message Security for Client Applications".

To enable the default client and server providers for the Application Server, follow these steps.

  1. In the Admin Console tree component, expand the Configuration node.
  2. Expand the Security node.
  3. Expand the Message Security node.
  4. Select the SOAP node.
  5. Select the Message Security tab.
  6. On the Edit Message Security Configuration page, specify a provider to be used on the server side and a provider to be used on the client side for all applications for which a specific provider has not been bound, if you want to use message security. The following optional properties may be modified:
  7. Click Save.
  8. If you enabled a client and server provider, the next step is to configure the providers. Link to "Configuring a Message Security Provider" for information on configuring the message security providers enabled in this step.

Equivalent asadmin commands:

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