Technical difference between CA Directory dxdumpdb and SiteMinder XPSExport tool

Products

• CA Single Sign-On
• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

Running a Policy Server with CA Directory as Policy Store.

What are the differences between CA Directory dxdumpdb tool and XPSExport utility?

Do they export the same objects?

Resolution

The CA Directory dxdumpdb tool will export all the inherent data structure with data from the LDAP instance, including objects that are strictly related to CA Directory in a format that other tools from CA Directory will be able to use.

The XPSExport tool will only export the SiteMinder objects.

It won't export the data structure.

Remember to run the command XPSDDInstall when constructing the Policy Store.

This tool is to create the data structure in the CA Directory instance.

So XPSExport is Siteminder application related and dxdumpdb is CA Directory service related.