Management of existing Apache Knox shared providers

You can add, modify, or disable an existing shared provider configuration in Apache Knox via Cloudera Manager.

The following default shared provider configurations are deployed in CDP Private Cloud with Knox:

Table 1. Default shared provider configurations
Configuration	Used by these topologies
`admin`	`admin`
`homepage`	`homepage`
`knoxsso`	`homepage` `cdp-proxy` `manager`
`manager`	`manager`
`metadata`	`metadata`
`pam`	`cdp-proxy-api`
`sso`	`cdp-proxy`

The following changes are allowed in any of these shared providers:

Disable a particular provider
Modify a particular provider
Add a new provider

All of these actions can be done via editing the

Knox Gateway Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve) for
        conf/cdp-resources.xml

by implementing the following language elements:

The key of a new entry should be like this: providerConfigs: providerConfig_1 [,providerConfig_2,..,providerConfig_3]

The value should contain the following name/value pairs separated by a hash (#) character:

role=webappsec|authentication|federation|identity-assertion|authorization|hostmap|ha
$role.name=ROLE_NAME (e.g. ShiroProvider)
$role.enabled=true|false (optional; defaults to 'true')
$role.param.param_1=value_1 (parameters are optional too)
...
$role.param_N.param1=value_N