Novell* iChain* is a security and management infrastructure for eBusiness solutions that provides secured One Net access management and administration using NDS* eDirectory as the core foundation.
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iChain Configuration
NDS eDirectory is the underlying integration point for iChain. NDS maintains and
stores most of the configuration, access control, and relationship information for iChain
in its directory objects. Additional configuration information is stored in the iChain
Internet caching server configuration files.
iChain Service Object
The iChain Service object (ISO) is administered from the ConsoleOne* utility. The ISO
contains attributes that define an iChain domain. ISO properties define users, groups,
Web servers, single sign-on parameters, and applications for the domain. The iChain
Service object properties determine which users, groups, or containers access iChain
infrastructure resources.
Access Control List Object
The Access Control List (ACL) object contains attributes that define iChain access control
rules. iChain ACLs can be applied to users, groups, or containers. The iChain Access
Rules object allows you to create, name, and define a description for a rule, enable or
disable the rule, and enable or disable authorized logging for the rule. It also allows
you to specify a list of resources that the rule controls access to; specify a subset of
those resources to deny access to (a feature known as URL Exception), specify a list of
containers, groups, or users to which this rule applies and grants access to the URLs;
and specify an exception list containing a subset of users, groups, or community members
of the Apply To list to whom access to the URLs should be denied.
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