You can use an External Attribute Source policy to retrieve attributes from external sources. You can create shared secrets from this policy. This shared secret can be used in configuring other policies or can be used by Identity Servers in their attribute sets to retrieve attributes from external sources.
An External Attribute Source policy must be enabled and configured before using the policy for retrieving the attributes from external sources. For information about creating an External Attribute Source policy, see Creating an External Attribute Source Policy.
This section describes the usages of the External Attribute Source policy with the help of the following scenarios:
For information about sample codes for these examples, see Access Manager SDK Sample Code.