Working with Containers

You mange containers from the Containers page (Applications menu > Containers).

• Containers — A container is a terminal emulator or other program that allows an application to be hosted on a mainframe or a UNIX server and used on a desktop. Containers are required by Host-Based Applications

• Shared Credential Stores — You can set some applications to share credentials in a shared credential store. See Using Shared Credential Stores.

Using Containers

A container is a terminal emulator or other program that allows an application to be hosted on a mainframe or a UNIX server and used on a desktop. Containers are required by Host-Based Applications. Imprivata OneSign also supports containers that use HLLAPI to access mainframe computers, and supports non-HLLAPI connections to non-mainframe computers.

From the Containers list, you can see which containers are deployed and when they were updated. If you have an Imprivata agent installed, you can open the Imprivata OneSign APG and edit the profile by clicking Edit Profile. You cannot deploy a container separately from its application.

Containers have profiles just like applications. Every host-based application has a container, and the container is automatically profiled with the application.

• Click Add to profile a new container, similarly to the way you add a new application profile.

• Click Import to import existing container profiles from another AppProfiles.xml file.

You import container profiles the same way you import application profiles, as detailed in Importing Application Profiles.