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Program Exit Definitions

When defining a common program exit, you enter fields that are interpreted by the Provisioning Server, which invokes the program exit routine. In entering these fields, consider the operating system (Windows or UNIX) of that domain’s Provisioning Servers so that these fields work on that operating system. If the domain includes Windows and UNIX Provisioning Servers, be sure that these fields work on both operating systems.

For the SOAP program exits, the WSDL can be specified by a URI or its fully qualified name as seen from the Provisioning Server or by a pathname relative to PSHOME\bin ($PSHOME/bin on UNIX), which is the current working directory of the Provisioning Server.

For the DLL program exits, the library name can be a fully qualified name or it can be a common name with or without the lib prefix or the .dll or .so suffix. When only one Provisioning Server exists for a domain, no restrictions exist for how you specify the library name. But when a domain has multiple servers, the library name must be valid for all the servers and since UNIX and Windows have different path syntaxes, files systems, prefixes, and suffixes, the library name should be defined as a common name without any prefix or suffix.

Thus the preferred way to define a program exit object for the CommonExit sample exit is to enter the string CommonExit for library name (in this exact case). The UNIX server will search LD_LIBRARY_PATH for a library named libCommonExit.so. On Windows, this will locate CommonExit.dll by searching the PATH environment variable.