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Management Services

A management protocol exists between agents and the SiteMinder Policy Server. This protocol helps an agent manage its caches and encryption keys in a manner consistent with both SiteMinder policies and administrative changes on the Policy Server.

To request the latest agent commands, an agent calls the method doManagement() with MANAGEMENT_GET_AGENT_COMMANDS set in the ManagementContextDef object. Typically, this call is made every n seconds by a thread running in the background. The types of agent commands that can be retrieved are cache commands and encryption commands.