Agent for SharePoint Guide › How to Configure your CA SiteMinder Policy Server › Create an Authentication Scheme for the Agent for SharePoint › Create a CA SiteMinder Application to Protect SharePoint Resources that CA DataMinder also Protects › Add Resources to your Application

Add Resources to your Application

CA SiteMinder applications use resources to protect items in your SharePoint environment. These resources for CA SiteMinder applications consist of the following parts:

• Rules.
• Authentication or authorization actions which occur when a rule fires.

Note: In the previous context, "resources" refers only to the rules and actions that are associated with CA SiteMinder applications. Generally, resources indicate the protected items on a SharePoint server, such as URLs.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Policies, Applications.

   The applications screen appears, showing a list of applications.

2. Locate the application that you created to protect your SharePoint sites, and then click the Edit icon.

   The Modify Application: screen appears.

3. Click the Resources tab.

   The Resources screen appears.

4. Click the Select a context root drop-down list, and then select the resource filter that you previously created for your SharePoint authorization URL. See the following example:

   /affwebservices/redirectjsp/redirect.jsp
   

5. Click Create.

   The General screen appears.

6. Enter a distinctive name, and an optional description.
7. Verify that the Web Agent actions option button is selected, and then Ctrl-click the following items in the Action list:
   • Get
   • Head
   • Options
   • Post
   • Put
8. Click OK.

   The General screen closes and the Resources screen appears.

9. Click Submit.

   The application resources are created and a confirmation message appears.