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Policy Server Access

You must have the SiteMinder Policy Server to run the applications and Policy Server plug-ins that you develop with the SiteMinder SDK.

However, in most cases, you do not use the Policy Server to build those applications and plug-ins. The one exception is that when building Policy Management applications for Solaris using the C Policy Management API, you must do so on the machine where the Policy Server is installed.

At runtime:

• All plug-ins developed with the SDK must be installed on the same machine as the Policy Server.
• Some applications developed with the SDK must be installed on the same machine as the Policy Server while others can be executed remotely.

The following table specifies the type of access to the Policy Server required by your applications and plug-ins:

Note: When you build Policy Management applications for Solaris environments using the C Policy Management API, use the libraries libsmpolicyapi45.so and libsmutilities.so, which are part of the Policy Server.