CentraSite
A little structure goes a long way.
Capabilities
Metadata Registry & Repository | Active Lifecycles | Active Policies | Search & Notification | Relationship Tracking | Federation Engine | Standards Support
Active Policies
Increase consistency and control
CentraSite’s Active Policy technology automates lifecycle processes. An Active Policy defines a series of actions that you associate with an event, such as the addition, modification or lifecycle status change of an asset. When the event occurs, CentraSite executes the actions prescribed in the policy. For example, when a service is added to CentraSite, a policy can trigger a series of automated steps, such as validating metadata and provisioning appropriate permissions.
Development-time policies
CentraSite enforces policies along an asset’s lifecycle at major governance checkpoints, such as funding approval, architecture and design reviews and operational readiness reviews. Automated enforcement provides timely and consistent guidance to interdependent but autonomous SOA and BPM teams. To save time, you can use pre-loaded development-time policies, including metadata validation, WS-I compliance, approval workflow, permission provisioning, notifications and much more.
Smart policy provisioning
Manually associating the right policies with right assets can be tedious and result in errors. CentraSite’s smart policy provisioning takes away that guesswork. Once a policy is defined and approved, CentraSite automatically applies it to all assets that meet a specific criteria you define. You can change the policy’s scope simply by changing this criteria.
Run-time policies
CentraSite also provides a powerful roster of policies that can be enforced when services are invoked at run-time to ensure correct and authorized use of services. Run-time policies include consumer authorization, message-level encryption and signatures and schema validation. Run-time policies are managed in CentraSite and enforced using webMethods Mediator.
Custom policies
In addition to using CentraSite’s pre-built policy templates, you can write custom policies in Java or Groovy scripting language. Your custom policies will have full access to all metadata available in CentraSite.
