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Establish a Connection to the Policy Server

To establish a connection to the Policy Server, use the SmApiConnection class of the Utilities package. This class holds the Agent API handle through which Java API requests are sent.

There are two types of connection handles in this class:

• A default connection handle. A default connection handle:
  • Represents a single instance of an Agent API object.
  • Is static across the process.
  • Allows connections to the Agent API object from both Policy Management and DMS clients.

  You can establish multiple connections to the Policy Server through the single Agent API object instance.

• A user-defined connection handle. You can create multiple user-defined connection objects; each one can support multiple connections to the Policy Server.