Protected object space
Security Verify Access conceptualizes resources in a domain by showing a virtual representation called the protected object space. The protected object space is the logical and hierarchical portrayal of resources that belong to a domain.
- Resource objects
- The logical representation of actual physical resources in a domain, such as files, services, web pages, and message queues.
- Container objects
- Structural components that group resource objects hierarchically into distinct functional regions.
Security policy can be applied to both types of objects. Figure 1 shows a logical representation of a protected object space with multiple container and resource objects. This illustration shows container objects as white boxes and resource objects as gray boxes.
The structural top of the protected object space is the root container object. Below the root container object are one or more container objects. Each container object represents an object space that consists of a related set of resources. These resources can be resource objects or container objects.
/Management
object space. This object space consists
of the objects that are used to manage Security Verify Access itself.
Under the /Management
object space, the installation
creates the following container objects: /Users
/Groups
/POP
/Action
/ACL
/GSO
/Server
/Config
/Replica
Figure 2 shows the complete /Management
object
space that is created during the installation of Security Verify Access.
Each
resource manager that protects a related set of resources creates
its own object space. For example, the installation of the WebSEAL
component creates the /WebSEAL
object space.