Table Of Contents

Preface

Objective

Audience

Document Organization

Document Conventions

Related Documentation

Changes to This Document

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Preface

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This preface explains the objectives, intended audience, and organization of the Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager .Net Developer Guide and describes the conventions that used throughout the guide.

The preface contains the following sections:

•Objective

•Audience

•Document Organization

•Document Conventions

•Related Documentation

•Changes to This Document

Objective

This document provides guidelines for using the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) and Policy Administration Point (PAP) APIs, and provides instructions for configuring the PEP agent and Java Server Page (JSP) tag libraries.

Audience

This guide is for administrators who use CEPM and are responsible for resource modelling and entitlement management.

Document Organization

This guide contains the following topics:

•Chapter 1, "Introduction"

•Chapter 2, "PEP API Quick Start Guide"

•Chapter 3, "Using Old PAP APIs"

•Chapter 4, "Using New PAP APIs"

•Appendix A, "PEP API Reference Guide"

•Appendix A, "PEP API Reference Guide"

•Appendix B, "PAP API Implementations"

Document Conventions

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Caution Means reader be careful. You are capable of doing something that might result in equipment damage or loss of data.

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Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to materials not contained in this manual.

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Related Documentation

Following are the related documents that are available in CEPM-V3.3.0.0 documentation:

Documentation Title	Description and Location of the Document in Cisco.com
CEPM Installation & Configuration Guide	Provides step-by-step instructions on how to install CEPM Components, such as Policy Administration Point (PAP) and Policy Decision Point (PDP), in various supported combinations of operating system, database, and application server. Location on Cisco.com: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/epm/epm33/Installation_Guide/Install_and_Config_Guide/CEPM_Install_and_Config_Guide.html
CEPM User Guide	Provides detailed information about various features and functionalities available in CEPM. Location on Cisco.com: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/epm/epm33/Guide/User_Guide/CEPM_User_Guide.html
CEPM PEP Configurations Guide	Provides guidelines to configure the PEP configuration parameters available in the pep_config.xml file. Location on Cisco.com: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/epm/epm33/Configuration_Guide/PEP_Configuration_Guide/EPMPEPConfigs_chap.html
CEPM Dotnet Agent Guide	Provides step-by-step instructions to deploy the CEPM Dotnet Agent used by any .NET based application (either a desktop or a web-based application). It also describes about a COM-wrapped agent, which is supported for VB, C++, and other Windows-based applications. Location on Cisco.com: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/epm/epm33/Agent/Dotnet_Agent/CEPM_Dotnet_Agent_Guide.html

Changes to This Document

lists the changes made to this document since it was first released.

Table 1 Changes to This Document

Date	Change Summary
July 7, 2009	Minor edits and template/boilerplate updates for publication to Cisco.com
April 3, 2009	Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager (EPM) Release 3.3.0.0

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