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Access Control and Management

To minimize the potential problem of web services ticket flooding and to maintain the stability of the CA SDM server, this version of CA SDM Web Services uses an Access Control and Management system. It works primarily to handle the excessive service activities initiated by trusted user applications that can result from programming errors or exceptions. It also works as a barrier for controlling access to CA SDM Web Services from malicious attackers. An administrator of a web service application is able to create and define an access policy in CA SDM that controls access to CA SDM Web Services from a web service application.

Note: A default access policy with a code of DEFAULT is provided. The default access policy contains no access restrictions and is only applied to sessions authenticated through username and password.