How to get details of the response headers which are mapped in policies for each realm

Products

• CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

If there is a situation where you need to get details of the response headers which are mapped in policies for each realm, please review the following information.

Environment

Release : 12.8.06a

Resolution

1. How to get the entire list of SiteMinder response.

A. After SiteMinder Admin UI login, there is REST API at the bottom. It is similar to https://<SiteMinder Admin UI FQDN>:<Port number>/ca/api/sso/services/v1/api-doc

 

B. After login in REST API sample screen, click "Policy Data API - Core policy objects" link in the Sections. 

C. In the SmResponse, please click the last Get link /ca/api/sso/services/policy/v1/smResponses

 

D. Click "Execute" button and it provides the list and response list. 

E. In the result, there is path information. 

{

"id": "CA.SM::Response@07-0001a821-ee9b-139c-90dd-0003ac100000",

"path": "/SmDomains/VoonAir/SmResponses/User_Info",

"href": "https://sso.demo-broadcom.com:443/ca/api/sso/services/policy/v1/objects/CA.SM::Response@07-0001a821-ee9b-139c-90dd-0003ac100000"

},

/SmDomain

VoonAir => Domain Name

SmResponse

User_Info => Response Name

 

2. How to get in detail information about the response information

A. In SiteMinder REST API Service screen, select SmResponse. Then, input domain name and response name.

B. It returns the response related information including attributes and others.

3. How to automate for the other response

In the REST API, there are curl command and Request URL information it shows in detail information how to do REST API call.

Using scripts or any REST API tool, it can be automated.

 

Using other tool (ex: POSTman), it can collect SiteMinder response information.

 

Additional Information

Reference URL : https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/identity-security/siteminder/12-8/programming/policy-object-rest-apis/rest-api-reference-documentation.html