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

ProcedureTo Create Manager and Employee Groups Using Access Manager for J2EE Policy Agent Test

A group represents a collection of users with a common function, feature, or interest. The groups created in this section will be used to test the policy agent after installation.

  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 users realm.

  4. Click the Subjects tab.

  5. Click the Groups tab.

  6. Create a manager group for the Users realm.

    1. On the Groups page, click New.

    2. On the New Group page, enter Manager-Group as the ID and click OK.

      The Manager-Group is displayed in the list of Groups.

    3. Click Manager-Group in the list of Groups.

    4. Copy the value of the Universal ID and save it to a text file.

      You will need this value in To Configure Properties for the J2EE Policy Agent 1 Sample Application.

    5. Click the Users tab.

      You should see the users that were created in Chapter 7, Configuring an Access Manager Realm for User Authentication.

    6. Select Test User1 from the list and click Add.

    7. Click Save.

    8. Click Back to Subjects.

  7. Create an employee group for the Users realm.

    1. On the Groups page, click New.

    2. On the New Group page, enter Employee-Group as the ID and click OK.

      The Employee-Group is displayed in the list of Groups.

    3. Click Employee-Group in the list of Groups.

    4. Copy the value of the Universal ID and save it to a text file.

      You will need this value in To Configure Properties for the J2EE Policy Agent 1 Sample Application.

    5. Click the Users tab.

      You should see the users that were created in Chapter 7, Configuring an Access Manager Realm for User Authentication.

    6. Select Test User2 from the list and click Add.

    7. Click Save.

    8. Click Back to Subjects.

  8. Log out of the Access Manager console.