Installing the Administration Server
This section covers the following topics:
The Administration Server runs in a servlet container, either WebLogic Server 8.1 or Apache Tomcat, and provides several administrative utilities, including the Administration Console, a Service Control Manager, a Security Service Module, the Business Logic Manager (BLM), an Authorization and Role Mapping Engine (ARME), the Policy Importer, and the Policy Exporter. You can use the Administration Console or the BLM to manage and configure security providers, to write and manage authorization and role mapping policies, and to distribute the security configurations and polices to local or remote Security Service Modules.
This guide describes how to install the Administration Server and how to install and configure a database server that the Administration Server uses for the policy store. It also lists the system requirements and prerequisites, including hardware and software requirements. This guide does not include information for installing the Security Service Modules that are used to protect enterprise application resources. That information is provided in other installation guides included in this documentation set.
To install the Administration Server, perform the following tasks (see Figure 1-1):
Figure 1-1 Installation Process Overview