AS can only authenticate connections for which PNS services explicitly request authentication. To allow this, the connection between PNS and AS has to be set up. This requires configuring some connection parameters both in PNS and in AS. The procedure below describes how to configure these parameters.

Now an Authentication policy has to be set up. Authentication policies are used by PNS services and specify which authentication provider is used by the service, the type of authentication (inband, outband), and caching parameters. An authentication policy can be used by multiple services.

To actually use the authentication policy configured above, the PNS services have to reference the policy.

Figure 15.24. Using authentication in PNS services

The authentication policy to be used by the service can be selected from the Authentication policy combobox on the Instances tab of the Application-level Gateway MC component. The combobox displays all the available authentication policies.