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Responses Overview

A response is a container for one or more response attributes which the Policy Server sends to a SOA Agent after processing the response. The Policy Server supports several types of response corresponding to different Agent types, each of which provides a different set of attributes, which take the form of name/value pairs.

SOA Agents accept only accept Web Agent responses, which provide attributes (name/value pairs) that can be used by SOA Agents and SiteMinder Web Agents.

Policies contains rules and responses which are bound to users and user groups. In a policy, responses are bound to specific rules or rule groups. When a rule fires, the associated response returns information to a SOA Agent, such as user attributes, DN attributes, static text, or customized active responses. Responses can also be used to instruct a SOA Agent to generate WS-Security headers and SAML Session Tickets.