Main Settings (Profile Web Service)

To learn about profile Web services and profile sources, click here.

To specify the location of your profile Web service, specify a time-out, and enable or disable profile sources associated with this Web service:

1. Under Server Information, you can establish and manage remote server associations for this Web service:

• To associate a remote server (or to change an existing association):
1. Click Browse.
2. In the Choose Remote Server dialog box, choose the remote server you want to associate and click OK.

The associated remote server displays to the right of Remote Server, and the location of that remote server in the administrative directory displays to the right of Remote Server Path.

• To edit the remote server, click its name.

• To remove the remote server association, click Remove.

2. Under Profile Web Service Settings, specify the path and time-out settings for this Web service:

1. In the Synchronization URL box, type the path to the profile provider. If you associated a remote server, the base URL displays to the left of the box. You can either type a relative path, finishing the path that starts with the base URL (/myProfileWebService/ProfileProvider.asmx), or you can type an absolute path, ignoring the base URL (http://myServer/myProfileWebService/ProfileProvider.asmx).

2. For the SOAP Timeout setting, specify how long you want the portal to try to get the profile information from the computer hosting the Web service. If the host computer does not return information before the time-out period ends, an error message displays (for example, in the job log upon completion of an associated profile source job).
   
   In the text box, type the number of seconds or minutes you want the portal to wait; then, in the drop-down list click Second(s) or Minute(s).

3. Under Status of Web Service, specify what should happen when a user tries to access profile sources associated with this Web service (for example, by running an associated profile source job):

• To allow this Web service to provide profile information, click Enabled.

• To display a message to users when they try to access this Web service, click Disabled with message and type a message in the box.

You can toggle the status of this Web service at any time. For example, you might want to disable a Web service if you need to do maintenance on the host computer or on the Web service itself.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Profile Web Service Editor:
• To create a new profile Web service:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object menu, click Web Service - Profile.
• To edit an existing profile Web service:
1. Navigate to the profile Web service you want to edit.
2. Click the profile Web service name.