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Access Management Models

SiteMinder access management models let you define access permissions for applications and their respective user populations. An access management model establishes the following:

• What resource is protected.
• Who can access the resource.
• What type of access user populations have.
• What happens when SiteMinder grants access to the resource.
• What happens when SiteMinder denies access to a resource.

All SiteMinder functionality is available, regardless of which model you use. The primary difference between the models is the level of SiteMinder knowledge required to configure each. The following Administrative UI objects represent the access management models:

• A SiteMinder policy
• An Enterprise Policy Management (EPM) application

Note: The following SiteMinder core objects are required to configure a SiteMinder policy or an EPM application:

• A host configuration object
• An agent configuration object
• An agent object
• A user directory object

  For more information about these objects, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.