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A SiteMinder Agent is a client of the Agent API. The agent enforces access control policies provided by the Policy Server. The Policy Server is a general-purpose policy engine with no information about resources. Agents establish resource semantics and act as gate keepers to protect resources from unauthorized users.
Different agent types protect different kinds of resources. Some agent types are pre-defined, standard agents that are shipped as part of the SiteMinder product—for example, the Web Agent, which provides HTTP access control for Web Servers. You can also use the Agent API to implement custom agents.
When you create an application using the Agent API, you can create a custom agent to authenticate and authorize users in a variety of ways, depending on the context. For example, you could create an agent for FTP transfers that implements the following functionality:
When you build a custom agent with the SDK, you must run the custom agent against the version of the SiteMinder Policy Server that corresponds to the version of the SDK.
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