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Policy Server Access

You must have the SiteMinder Policy Server to run the applications and Policy Server plug-ins that you develop with the SiteMinder SDK.

However, in most cases, you do not use the Policy Server to build those applications and plug-ins. The one exception is that when building Policy Management applications for Solaris using the C Policy Management API, you must do so on the machine where the Policy Server is installed.

At runtime:

• All plug-ins developed with the SDK must be installed on the same machine as the Policy Server.
• Some applications developed with the SDK must be installed on the same machine as the Policy Server; others can be executed remotely.

The following table specifies the type of access to the Policy Server required by your applications and plug-ins:

Note: When you build Policy Management applications for Solaris environments using the C Policy Management API, use the libraries libsmpolicyapi45.so and libsmutilities.so, which are part of the Policy Server.