Grid Application Access to External System Configurations

External system configurations can only be accessed by grid applications that have been granted the access to the configuration for a specific external system. This is a security measure to ensure that decrypted credentials are only available where an administrator has authorized it.

Grid applications that need to access external system configurations register request names. These are the applications’ internal names for the external systems that they need to access. One application may register "S3" as a request name, and another one may register "LSF" as a request name, but in the end, they may both map to the same external system.

The registered request names are mapped to external systems in the External Systems Management UI. For details, see Mapping and unmapping an external system to an applicationsection "Mapping and unmapping an external system to an application".

Note that a grid application that integrates with an external system needs to provide a service that performs the connection to the external system, based on some configuration handled by the application itself. The presence of an external system configuration only is not enough to set up the connection.