Securing Web Applications With Novell iChain

You can use Novell® iChain® 2.x to secure the Web applications you are provisioning through Novell ZENworks® OnDemand ServicesTM. Doing so ensures that a user will only have access to a Web application if he or she has purchased (or been assigned access to) the Web application's package.

To integrate OnDemand Services with iChain, you set up your Web applications as protected resources with an access level of Secure. You then create access control list (ACL) rules that allow access to the Web applications in these secured areas. When a user purchases a package that includes a Web application, OnDemand Services adds the user to the membership list of the ACL rule associated with the Web application. This gives the user access to the Web application until the purchase expires, at which time OnDemand Services removes the user from the rule's membership list.

Complete the tasks in the following sections to secure your Web applications through iChain:

For additional information about iChain, see the Novell iChain 2.0 documentation at the Novell Documentation Web site.