Help needed to properly use SiteMinder REST API in custom scripts

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Issue/Introduction

Developing a Python application to manage the Policy Store objects through REST API, is there any documentation to guide modifying the Policy Store objects?

 

Resolution

Here are some articles that might be of interest.
  
To help to understand the causes of the errors faced from REST API, enable the REST API traces:

How to enable AdminUI RestAPI traces?

Error SMRESTAPI_806 when running REST API in AdminUI

Ensure logging only once in the AdminUI with REST API to avoid memory problems on the AdminUI:

Error: GC overhead limit exceeded when REST API in use with AdminUI

In REST API, the XID shouldn't be URL encoded:

Siteminder RESTAPI returns an HTTP 500 Error When Searching for a Specific Object XID

Operators allowed for REST API:

REST API operators to sort and filter in AdminUI

Sample of a bash script to update hosts in an HCO:

Sample script to dynamically update a policy server cluster

Some common error faced with REST API:

Error while trying to authenticate with REST API in AdminUI

Error: REST API fails to update FedSPPartnerships details in AdminUI

Some operations samples:

Obtain the Authentication Scheme from all territories (Realm)