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Obtain a Session Object

A session object is obtained when a user or administrator successfully logs in. In this case, an administrator login is required, since only administrators can perform policy management.

To log in a SiteMinder administrator and establish an administrator session, call the login() method in the SmApiSession class of the Utilities package.

Once login is successful, the session object will hold a valid administrator session specification.