Creating a Message Security Configuration
 
The Application Server provides a default message security configuration for the SOAP authentication layer. Modify this configuration and/or add new message security providers to this configuration, as needed. For more information, see “Configuring Message Security”.
 
To create a new message security configuration, follow these steps. 
 - In the Admin Console tree component, expand the Configurations node.
- Select the instance to configure:
 - To configure a particular instance, select the instance’s config node. For example, the default instance, server, select theserver-confignode.
- To configure the default settings for all instances, select the default-confignode.
- Expand the Security node in the Admin Console tree.
- Select the Message Security node.
- On the Message Security Configuration page, click New.
- On the Create Message Security Configuration page, enter the following:
 - Authentication Layer – Enter SOAP for the name of the message layer on which authentication processing must be performed. SOAP is the only valid option in this release.
- Default Provider – Check the box beside this field to make the new message security provider the default for this server. 
- Provider Type – Select client,server, orclient-serverto establish whether the provider is to be used as a client authentication provider, a server authentication provider, or both (a client-server provider). The default value isclient-server.
- Provider ID - Enter an identifier used to reference this provider configuration in the Admin Console tree.
- Class Name - Enter the Java implementation class of the provider. Client authentication providers must implement the com.sun.xml.wss.provider.ClientSecurityAuthModule
 interface. Server-side providers must implement thecom.sun.xml.wss.provider.ServerSecurityAuthModule
 
interface. A provider can implement both interfaces, but it must implement the interface corresponding to its provider type.
- Add additional properties by clicking the Add Property button. Valid properties include:
 - server.config - The directory and file name of an XML file that contains the server configuration information. For the default provider, this value is install_dir- /domain_dir- /config/wss-server-config.xml.
- Click OK to save this configuration, or click Cancel to quit without saving.
See also:
 - Creating a Message Security Provider
- Editing a Message Security Configuration
- Deleting a Message Security Configuration
- Deleting a Message Security Provider
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