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About TEWS

The CA Identity Manager Task Execution Web Service (TEWS) is a web service interface that allows third-party client applications to submit remote tasks to CA Identity Manager for execution. This interface implements the open standards of WSDL and SOAP to provide remote access to CA Identity Manager. All CA Identity Manager tasks are supported.

A client application submits a remote task as an HTTP 1.x POST request to a web service URL in the Identity Manager environment. The body of the POST request is a SOAP document that conforms to the interface described in a task-specific WSDL document generated by CA Identity Manager. The WSDL document describes the metadata that the client application requires to prepare and submit a task request.

CA Identity Manager replies to a remote task request with a SOAP response containing one of the following:

• The requested information
• Indication that the task has been submitted for processing
• An exception that identifies a problem with the request

The client application is responsible for gathering, formatting, and sending the information required for CA Identity Manager to perform the web service task implementation. No CA Identity Manager APIs are provided for these purposes.