Creating Services

SecureApp includes a comprehensive list of pre-defined services. You can also add your own custom services to add to connections. These custom services can be added to the global list of services available to all applications, or to the local list available only to the current application.

For example, often you have an application that uses a specific port. This port is not used by other applications. You are going to need to create a custom service for this specific application. However, there is no need to have it listed as an available service when creating connections for other applications. Therefore, you can create the new service as a local service. You can also create a service group to be included in the application's local list. After creating your new local service/service list, you can then easily select from it when defining a connection for this application. However, when creating connections for other applications, these custom local services are not included in the full list of services (global) that can be used by all applications.

Application identities are also used to connect sources and destinations, but are selected from a predefined list in SecureApp and not created manually.

Define a New Service or Service Group

In the Applications page, click on an application.

The application opens in the Connectivity tab.
In the Resources pane, open the Services expander to view the list of services available to all applications.
Click the Global or Local tab, depending if you want the new service or service group to be available to all applications or just to the current application.
Click and select either New to create a new service or New group to create a new service group.
Enter the details for the service or service group.
- New service - Enter the name, protocol, port number, timeout value in seconds (optional) and description of the service.
- New service group - Enter the name and description of the group, and select the services to include in the group. You can also click New Service to create a new service and automatically add the new service to the group.
  
  If you are adding a new local service group, both global and local services are listed and can be selected for your new group. When you are adding a new global service group, only global services are listed and can be selected for your new group.
  
  After you create a group, to search for members within the group you can either:
  - Select the group from the Resources pane and click .
  - View a connection where the group is used and click on the name of the group.
Click Save.

You can now add the service or service group to a connection.

Global user defined services can be edited when they are not part of a connection of any application. Local services can always be edited. Global predefined services cannot be edited.