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About the SiteMinder Command Line Interface

The SiteMinder Command Line Interface (CLI) lets you perform SiteMinder tasks by running custom Perl scripts from the command line.

The scripting interface contains the following APIs:

• Agent API—Lets you test whether access control of protected resources is behaving according to policy definitions.
• Policy Management API—Lets you design and administer policy stores.

The Command Line Interface provides:

• A quick and light-weight alternative to the Administrative UI.
• An efficient way to perform Policy Server design and administrative tasks over multiple policy stores.
• The ability to migrate individual objects between policy stores.

The Command Line Interface lets you perform most, but not all, of the policy store operations you can perform through the Administrative UI.