Agent for SharePoint Guide › How to Configure your SiteMinder Policy Server › Create a SiteMinder Application to Protect SharePoint Resources › Add Resources to your Application

Add Resources to your Application

SiteMinder applications use resources to protect items in your SharePoint environment. These resources for 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 SiteMinder applications. Generally, resources indicate the items on a SharePoint server that you wish to protect, 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 the Select a context root drop-down list, and then select the resource filter that you previously created for the claims web service. See the following example:

   /ClaimsWS/services/WSSharePointClaimsServiceImpl
   

10. Click Create.

    The General screen appears.

11. Enter a distinctive name, and an optional description.
12. 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

    Note: The resources in Steps 4 through 12 are the basic resources that the Agent for SharePoint requires to operate. For testing or production environments, create additional resources for the other SharePoint URLs resources you want to protect. Possible examples of these resources include the following items:

    • http://intranet.example.com
    • http://intranet.example.com/finance
    • http://intranet.example.com/investors
13. Click OK.

    The General screen closes and the Resources screen appears.

14. Click Submit.

    The application resources are created and a confirmation message appears.