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Search Request

Use the search request to read the attributes of objects provisioned by the Provisioning Server.

Each object is uniquely identified by an ID, which is similar to an LDAP distinguished name. For example, the following identifier is the unique identifier representing the EXAMPLE_DOMAIN domain:

"Domain=EXAMPLE_DOMAIN,Server=Server"

The following identifies the user Administrator in this domain:

"User=Administrator,Domain=EXAMPLE_DOMAIN,Server=Server" .

A search request allows you to look up objects in a container. In particular, a domain can contain the following objects:

• User
• Group
• Dynamic Group
• Profile
• Password Profile
• Role
• Child Domain
• Namespace

  A namespace contains policies and end points, and an end point contains accounts and account containers.