Applies To:
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BIG-IP APM
- 12.1.6, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0
Adding Hosted Content to Access Policy Manager
About uploading custom files to Access Policy Manager
You can upload custom files to BIG-IP® Access Policy Manager®(APM®) to provide resources directly to users.
For example, you can upload BIG-IP Edge Client® installers, antivirus or firewall update packages, or Citrix receiver files for your users to download. You can upload custom images, web pages, Java archives, JavaScript files, CSS files, archive files, and many other types of files as well.
Optionally, you can compress and upload multiple files as a single ZIP archive file. When you upload an archive file, you can choose to either upload the compressed file, or upload and extract the compressed file.
- Upload Only
- Select this option to upload an archived file that must remain in archive format. For example, you can upload a ZIP file for a user to download, containing a package of documents, or an application and related files. Some applications also use archived files; for example, you will upload a JAR file without extracting it.
- Upload and Extract
- Select this option to upload an archived file and extract it to the specified location. The folder hierarchy of the extracted file is preserved when you use this action. Select this option when you are uploading a collection of files that must be separated on the server for use by the end user; for example, to upload a web application that includes top-level HTML files, and subdirectories containing scripts, images, CSS, and other files.
Understanding hosted content
Hosted content is any type of file you would like to serve from Access Policy Manager® (APM®) to access policy users. Hosted content can include executable files, scripts, text, HTML, CSS files, and image files. You can serve hosted content from a webtop link, or from a portal access link.
About accessing hosted content
To access hosted content, a user must belong to an access profile that is associated with the hosted content. After content is uploaded to Access Policy Manager® (APM®), the entire hosted content library must be associated with one or more access profiles. These access profiles alone can view the content.
In addition, each file uploaded to the hosted content repository is assigned a permission level that determines the users who can access that content.
Permissions for hosted content
A permission level is assigned to each file in the hosted content repository, as described here.
| Permission level | Description |
|---|---|
| policy | The file is available only to users who have successfully completed an access policy, with an Allow ending result, and an access profile associated with the hosted content repository. You can assign this to display an HTML file that only a verified user can see. |
| public | The file is available to anyone with an access profile associated with the hosted content repository. You can assign this to allow access to an installation package that a user needs to start an access session. |
| session | The file is available only to users with an active access policy session and an access profile associated with the hosted content repository. You can assign this to allow a user with an active session access to a required logon component. |
Task summary
To add hosted content to Access Policy Manager® (APM®), complete these tasks.
Task list
Uploading files to Access Policy Manager
Associating hosted content with access profiles
Implementation result
As a result of these implementation tasks, you have edited files and deleted hosted files on Access Policy Manager® as necessary.
