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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 ControlMinder 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 SAM Agent, which gets, checks out, or checks in the privileged account password from CA ControlMinder Enterprise Management.

There are two types of password consumer SDK:

• Java SAM 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 SAM 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 SAM SDK.

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

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

More information:

semsgtool Utility—Maintain the Message File

The .NET SAM SDK

The Java SAM SDK

How a Password Consumer SDK Application Gets a Password