Deployment Example 1: Access Manager 7.1 Load Balancing, Distributed Authentication UI, and Session Failover

ProcedureTo Create an Agent Profile for the J2EE Policy Agent 1

This new agent profile will be used by J2EE Policy Agent 1 to authenticate to Access Manager.

  1. Access http://LoadBalancer-3.example.com:7070/amserver/UI/Login, the Access Manage load balancer, from a web browser.

  2. Log in to the Access Manager console as the administrator.

    Username

    amadmin

    Password

    4m4dmin1

  3. On the Access Control tab, click the top-level realm, example.

  4. Click the Subjects tab.

  5. Click the Agents tab.

  6. On the Agent page, click New.

  7. On the New Agent page, provide the following information and click OK.

    ID:

    j2eeagent-1

    Password:

    j2ee4gent1

    Password Confirm:

    j2ee4gent1

    Device State:

    Choose Active.

    The new agent j2eeagent–1 is displayed in the list of Agent Users.

  8. Log out of the Access Manager console.

  9. As a root user, log into the ProtectedResource–1 host machine.

  10. Create a directory into which you can download the J2EE policy agent bits and change into it.


    # mkdir /export/J2EEPA1
    # cd /export/J2EEPA1
    
  11. Create a text file that contains the Agent Profile password.

    The J2EE Policy Agent installer requires this file for installation.


    # cat > agent.pwd
    j2ee4gent1
    
    Hit Control D to terminate the command
    
    ^D
    
  12. Log out of the ProtectedResource–1 host machine.