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Initialize a Session

When you create a session, a number of session initialization flags are set to their default values. The following table lists the initialization methods in the PolicyMgtAPI object and their default values:

Note: These methods have no effect if called after CreateSession().

Example: Initialize session operations

The following example enables all the session initialization operations that are not enabled by default. If the session is successfully initialized, the script displays the initialization flags:

use Netegrity::PolicyMgtAPI;

$username = "adminid";
$password = "adminpwd";

print "\nInitializing and connecting to PolicyMgtAPI...\n";
$policyapi = Netegrity::PolicyMgtAPI‑>New();
$policyapi‑>PreLoadCache(1);
$policyapi‑>LoadAgentTypeDictionary(1);

die "ERROR: Couldn't create session\n" unless ($session != undef);

print "Initialization settings:\n";
print "  Preload cache flag: ".$policyapi‑>PreLoadCache()."\n";
print "  Disable validation flag: " . 
                     $policyapi‑>DisableValidation()."\n";
print "  Load agent type dictionary flag: " . 
                     $policyapi‑>LoadAgentTypeDictionary()."\n";
print "  Disable audit flag: ".$policyapi‑>DisableAudit()."\n";
print "  Disable watchdog flag: " . 
                     $policyapi‑>DisableManagementWatchDog()."\n";