Built-in functions and procedures

The Security Policy Scripting Language provides built-in functions and procedures to help simplify security policy implementation. Built-in functions and procedures are stand-alone subroutines that perform specific tasks. The difference between a function and a procedure is that a function returns a value while a procedure does not.

Taking advantage of built-in functions and procedures can dramatically speed the implementation time of a company’s security policy implementation.

The built-in functions are divided into the following groups:

• Advanced Control and Audit (ACA)
• Command line parsing
• Date and time
• File and path
• Format and conversion
• Input and output
• List
• Miscellaneous
• PAM policy
• Policy environment
• String
• Task control
• Task environment
• User and password