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Affiliate Agent Actions

Affiliate Agents are SiteMinder Agents that communicate with SiteMinder Web Agents installed on the Web servers of a portal Web site.

Affiliate Agent rules are very simple, since they do not protect the resources of an affiliate Web site. The Affiliate Agent processes responses sent from the portal site, so that applications on the affiliate Web site may take advantage of the information gathered about users on the SiteMinder protected portal Web site.

Affiliate Agent actions are only available in the place of Web Agent actions for realms associated with an Affiliate Agent. There is only one possible action:

• Visit

  Allows a SiteMinder portal site to interact with an affiliate Web site

Note: For more information about Affiliate Agents, see the Web Agent Configuration Guide.