About Security Managers

Security managers process the security queries generated by the ESF, and return either an allow, deny or unknown status. You can configure multiple security managers in an installation;'s security manager pool. From the pool, you can create a default list of the security managers to use, and lists for individual Enterprise Servers.

Note: Security managers are sometimes refered to as External Security Managers, or ESMs.

The ESF sends security queries to the security managers in the order in which they are configured in the list.

You configure Enterprise Server to:

Enterprise Server includes the following security managers that you can configure and use:

In addition to the above, a security managers can be anything that can process the API security queries that the ESF generates, and can return results to the ESF. You can develop a security manager to suit your requirements. A security manager could be a database, a directory, or an operating system mechanism