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.
Cache commands inform the agent of any changes to its caches that may need to be made as a result of administrative updates to the Policy Server.
The cache commands are:
Encryption commands inform the agent of new encryption keys that are generated administratively or automatically by the Policy Server. Agents save secure state can use this protocol to keep track of the latest encryption keys.
The encryption commands are:
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