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About the DMS API

Directory management consists of managing objects within a SiteMinder user directory. For example, a user of your directory management application can create organizations, add groups to organizations, and add end users to groups. Your application performs directory management operations with the DMS API.

The Delegated Management Services (DMS) API lets you perform directory management operations on LDAP and ODBC directories.

With LDAP directories, you can use the DMS API to write a client application that allows a user with the specified privileges to perform tasks such as (but not limited to):

• Creating an organization
• Creating a group
• Adding a group to an organization
• Adding a user to a group
• Modifying the profile of a user

With ODBC directories, you can perform many but not all DMS API operations.

Note: The DMS API (available in Java only) has different functionality than the DMS Workflow API (available in C/C++ only). The DMS API lets you develop directory management applications that perform similar operations as the SiteMinder DMS product. The DMS Workflow API works in conjunction with DMS and fires when certain pre-process and post-process DMS events occur, allowing you to develop applications that perform additional functionality before and/or after these events.