Discussion: Creating our warrants

The session above shows:

1. As a hosting administrator we connect to the hosting service (the application called Hospitality). Then we create a new contract for a customer and create a hosting control warrant for them in variable $hw. This warrant is a consumer-level warrant and gives the holder the rights to run an application on the hosting service.
2. We we write the warrant to a file hosting-warrant.xml and disconnect from the hosting admin service.
3. We do the same thing for SAS: connect with our admin-level warrant, create a new customer contract, and put their consumer-level warrant into variable $sw.
4. We dump the warrant to sas-warrant.xml and disconnect from the SAS admin service. Finally we quit the launcher.

Notice that although both the hosting service and SAS have the idea of contracts, the conepts are different and hence hence so are the command line interfaces. For the hosting service a new contract is an integer (which we can see when we issue the command echo $contract), and from this we can get a consumer warrant. But for the SAS a contract is identified by an X.500 DN, and creating a new contract does itself create a new warrant.

If we were to now telnet into our hosting service and use its list command we would see the new hosting contract.