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How to Configure an Endpoint to Use a Password Consumer SDK Application

You can use the password consumer SDKs to write applications for CA Access Control endpoints. The applications get, check out, and check in privileged account passwords, and provide password caching and user authentication.

When you run the application, the application calls the PUPM Agent, which gets, checks out, or checks in the privileged account password from CA Access Control Enterprise Management.

There are two types of password consumer SDK:

• Java PUPM SDK—Use this SDK to write Java applications for Windows and UNIX endpoints.

  The Java application that you write must use JRE 1.5 or later.

• .NET PUPM SDK—Use this SDK to write C# applications for Windows endpoints.

  You must install the .NET Framework 2.0 or later on the endpoint to use the .NET PUPM SDK.

To configure an endpoint to use a password consumer SDK application, do the following:

1. Verify that CA Access Control is installed on the endpoint with the PUPM Integration feature enabled.
2. Use the password consumer SDK samples to write your application. You can find the samples at the following locations:
   • Java PUPM SDK—ACInstallDir/SDK/JAVA/Samples/PUPMJavaSDK/src/cpm/ca/pupm/javasdk/Tester.java
   • .NET PUPM SDK—ACInstallDir/SDK/DOTNET/Examples

   You have configured the endpoint to use a password consumer SDK application. You must now create a Software Development Kit (SDK/CLI) password consumer for the application in CA Access Control Enterprise Management.

More information:

How a Password Consumer SDK Application Gets a Password

The Java PUPM SDK

The .NET PUPM SDK

Create a Password Consumer

semsgtool Utility—Maintain the Message File