📄️ Create Catalog Credentials for Execution Purposes
Credentials are required for the Rule Execution Service to connect to the catalog. Once credentials are created, you need to provide them to the Rule Execution Service. Read how to do that in the article, How to Set Credentials for Execution Purposes in SaaS Portal.
📄️ irCatalog for Rule Management
irCatalog is part of the irServer family of products. irCatalog facilitates the ability to store, version, deploy, and set permissions for rule applications. It also enables check-in/check-out and sharing of numerous types of rule elements such as rule sets, Schemas, data elements, categories, and end points. This functionality is integrated into irAuthor: see Open an Existing Rule Application, Save a Rule Application, and Catalog Operations.
📄️ Overview of the irCatalog Manager Website
Launching irCatalog Manager
📄️ Connecting to an irCatalog Service and Configuration
Connecting to the irCatalog Service
📄️ Exploring the Rule Applications Module
irCatalog Manager provides access to the revision history of all rule applications stored in irCatalog. From irCatalog Manager, it is possible to view every revision that has been made to the rule application and manipulate the labels assigned to various revisions.
📄️ Security Administration
InRule security is set up in the irCatalog Manager Website. Any defined user can log in to irCatalog Manager Website, but only those users with the ManageUsersAndRoles permission can make changes.
📄️ User Administration
Users are defined within the Users module of the irCatalog Manager Website.
📄️ Group Administration
Groups from Active Directory are available in the irCatalog Manager Website only when the irCatalog Service is configured to use LDAP. Groups can be defined from the Groups module.
📄️ Roles Administration
Roles are defined within the Roles module of the irCatalog Manager Website. A role consists of a role name and a set of permissions that can be assigned to that role. Roles can then be assigned to users and groups to define what functionality in irCatalog those users and groups can perform.
📄️ Security Permissions
A permission grants access to a particular type of functionality that can be performed in irCatalog. There are 13 available permissions, which cannot be customized or modified.
📄️ Overriding Permissions
irCatalog permissions can be overridden at the "Def" (definition) level. The levels available for override are:
📄️ Promoting Rule Applications
In many architectures, rule applications are authored in one or more development environments. Once a rule application has been tested and has met all of the requirements of a production application, the rule application can be promoted to the production environment one of several different ways.
📄️ Run Diagnostics and Catalog Repair Utilities
There may be situations where the irCatalog database gets into a corrupted state and must be repaired. To determine if there are validation errors that must be resolved, execute the Run Diagnostics utility on your irCatalog environment.
📄️ Upgrading irCatalog Rule Applications
When connecting to the irCatalog Service, if you receive a message like below, it indicates that you need to upgrade the Rule Applications in your irCatalog database.