CEPM Java Developers Guide V 3.3.1.0
Preface

Table Of Contents

Preface

Objective

Audience

Document Organization

Document Conventions

Related Documentation

Changes to This Document

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request


Preface


This preface explains the objectives, intended audience, and organization of the Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager Java Developers Guide and describes the conventions that convey instructions and other information.

The preface contains the following sections:

Objective

Audience

Document Organization

Document Conventions

Related Documentation

Changes to This Document

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Objective

This document provides guidelines for using the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) and Policy Administration Point (PAP) APIs, as well as 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 chapters and appendixes:

Chapter 1, "Introduction"

Chapter 2, "PEP API Quick Start Guide"

Chapter 3, "PAP API Quickstart Guide"

Chapter 4, "Using PDP WSDL"

Chapter 5, "PEP Tag Library Quick Start Guide"

Appendix A, "PEP API Reference Guide"

Document Conventions


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


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


Related Documentation

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

Table 1 Related Documents

Document Title
Description

CEPM User Guide V3.3.1.0

Provides detailed information about various features and functionalities available in CEPM.

Location on Cisco.com:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/epm/epm331/Guide/User_Guide/CEPM_User_Guide_V3310.html

CEPM Install and Config Guide V3.3.1.0

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/epm331/Installation_Guide/Install_and_Config_Guide/CEPM_Install_and_Config_Guide_V3310.html


Changes to This Document

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

Table 2 Changes to This Document

Date
Change Summary

October 7, 2010

Added a note stating PDPServicesWSDL is deprecated from Version 3.3.1.0, at the beginning of Chapter 4, "Using PDP WSDL".

July 15, 2010

Added code snippet for sample In-process PDP API call. Refer to Sample Code for In-process PDP.

June 10, 2010

Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager (EPM) Release 3.3.1.0

The following changes are made to this document:

New PAP APIs related to creating, updating resource groups are added with sample code snippet.

New PAP APIs related to defining policy on the resource group are added with sample code snippet.

New PEP APIs related to resource group are added.

Old PAP API references are removed.


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