In the Aikyam Identity Console (AIC) admin 1.0, a single application could be associated with multiple clients. In AIC admin 2.0, however, the model has changed to a one-to-one relationship, where each application is associated with a single client. As a result, during the migration from admin 1.0 to admin 2.0, an application that was linked to multiple clients in admin 1.0 is migrated as multiple separate applications in admin 2.0, one for each client.
To preserve the relationship between these migrated applications, the concepts of Source Application and Linked Application are introduced. These concepts enable related applications to remain associated after migration.A Source Application serves as the primary application in the relationship and must always be a web application. Connecting a Source Application helps ensure that the appropriate policies and configurations are applied to the associated Machine-to-Machine (M2M) application. Applications linked to the Source Application are referred to as Linked Applications.