Enabling topic role inheritance

Service integration bus security uses role-based authorization. When messaging security, and topic level security are enabled, and users and groups require access in the sender and receiver roles to access a topic in a publish/subscribe topic hierarchy. By default, topics inherit these roles from the parent topic. If topic role inheritance has been disabled for a particular topic, you can restore it by using the administrative console.

Before you begin

You must ensure that the following conditions are met:

About this task

In this task you use the administrative console to restore topic role inheritance for selected topics. A topic can only inherit the sender and receiver roles from the parent topic in the topic hierarchy.

Procedure

  1. Log into the administrative console.
  2. Click Service integration -> Buses -> security_value -> [Authorization Policy] Manage topic access roles -> topic_space_name > topic_name . The Topic access roles panel lists users and groups that have been assigned role types for the selected topic.
  3. Expand the topic name header to display details of the users and groups that have one or more access roles for this topic.
  4. Select the Inherit sender role from parent topic check box.
  5. Select the Inherit receiver role from parent topic check box.
  6. Click OK to save your changes.
  7. Save your changes to the master configuration.

Results

The select topic inherits access roles from the parent topic. The Topic access roles panel displays the inherited access roles for the topic.



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