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eTelligent Rules

eTelligent Rules let you to define variables. These variables enable a SiteMinder administrator to define fine-grained access-control criteria known as policy expressions. These policy expressions:

• Are SiteMinder policy attributes
• Include operators and customer-defined variables that are evaluated at runtime, when a user actually needs to access a protected resource on a web site

Variables can use local information, stored within the enterprise, as well as remote information that is provided by various Web Services.

You define variable objects and incorporate them into policy logic through policy expressions. You can also include variables in SiteMinder response objects.