About the Common Directory Services API
When connected to a My webMethods Server database schema, CDS behaves very much like a My webMethods Server cluster instance, and it participates in all the distributed caching across a My webMethods Server cluster. When a system directory user is updated, this change will be seen by all CDS instances connected to the same database within a few minutes.
Directory services are defined and managed in
My webMethods Server, by logging in to
My webMethods as either SysAdmin or as Administrator. For more information about working with directory services, see
Managing Directory Services and
Managing External Directory Services.
In addition to working with the CDS API, you can use the My webMethods interface to perform all directory management activities:
User, group, and role management. For more information, see
My webMethods Administrator Functions.