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Responses

You can improve or degrade performance during authorization in the way you configure responses.

Responses or response groups are bound to specific rule or rule groups. When a rule fires, a response can:

• Customize the amount of time user sessions remain valid.
• Redirect the user to other resources.
• Customize the content the user receives based on attributes contained in a user directory.
• Pass static text, user attributes, DN attributes, customized active responses, or the runtime values of defined variables from the Policy Server to a SiteMinder Agent.

Policies rules can be bound to one or more responses. The types of responses you bind to SiteMinder policy rules directly correlates to SiteMinder performance during authorization.

Note: For more information about responses, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.