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Sun Java System Access Manager 6 2005Q1 Deployment Planning Guide 

Contents


List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Code Examples

Preface
Who Should Use This Book
Before You Read This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Typographic Conventions
Symbols
Default Paths and File Names
Shell Prompts
Related Documentation
Books in This Documentation Set
Access Manager Policy Agent Documentation
Other Server Documentation
Accessing Sun Resources Online
Contacting Sun Technical Support
Related Third-Party Web Site References
Sun Welcomes Your Comments

Chapter 1   Introduction
What is Identity Management?
The Identity Management Infrastructure
The Life Cycle of an Identity Profile
Sun Java System Access Manager
Access Management
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Pluggable Authentication
Policy Evaluation
Federation Management
Liberty Alliance Project
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Identity Management
User Profile Management
Policy Configuration
Service Management
Auditing
Policy Agents
Access Manager Console
Programmatic Interfaces
Sun Java System Directory Server
Deploying Access Manager
Integrating Access Manager Using a Policy Agent
Deployment Road Map
Deployment Planning Guide Chapters
Related Access Manager Documentation

Chapter 2   Planning The Deployment
Defining Resources
Human Resources
Executive Sponsors
Team Lead
Project Management
Systems Analyst
LOB Application Administrators
System Administrators
Independent Software Vendors
Third Party Affiliates
Funding
Setting Goals
Gathering Information
Business Processes
IT Infrastructure
Virtual Data
Evaluating Applications
Platform Information
Security Models
Lifecycle of a Session
Customization and Branding
Categorizing Data
Mapping To Authentication
Mapping To Authorization
Building Timelines
Deployment Design
Proof-of-Concept
Early Adoption
General Participation
Production Environment
Tuning Your Deployment

Chapter 3   Access Manager Architecture
Overview
Integration Points
Policy Agents
Web and Proxy Server Agents
J2EE Agents
Access Manager SDK
Identity Management SDK
Service Management SDK
Authentication API and Authentication SPI
Utility API
Logging API and Logging SPI
Client Detection API
SSO API
Policy API
SAML SDK
Federation Management API
Functional Processes
Authentication and User Sessions
HTML Over HTTP(S) Interface
XML Over HTTP(S) Interface
Integrated Policy
Integrated Client Detection
CDSSO, SAML and Federation
CDSSO
SAML
Federation
Extending Access Manager
Web Containers
Multiple Directory Server Instances
LDAP Load Balancers

Chapter 4   Pre-Deployment Considerations
Deployment Options
Security
High Availability
Clustering
Scalability
Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements
Operating System Requirements
Patch Clusters for Solaris
JDK Software Requirements
Web Container Requirements
Directory Server Requirements
Web Browser Requirements
Understanding the Access Manager Schema
Marker Object Classes
Administrative Roles
Administrator Passwords
Schema Limitations
Only One Type of Entry Can be Marked as an Organization
People Containers Must be Parent Entries for Users
Only One Organization Description is Allowed in the Access Manager XML
Examples of Unsupported DITs

Chapter 5   Deployment Scenarios
Multiple Servers Scenario
Installing Multiple Access Manager Instances
Changing the Password Encryption Key for an Installation
Why change the password encryption key?
What else needs to be changed if you change the password encryption key?
To change the password encryption key
Web Deployment
Java Application Deployment
Multiple JVM Environment
Replication Considerations
Configuring For Replication
Configuring With a Load Balancer
Replication Caveats
Directory Server With a Firewall
Setting the Global Timeout Attribute
Setting the Timeout for Individual Client Connections
Access Manager and Portal Server Deployment
Installation on a Single Server
Installation on Multiple Servers
Session Failover
Overview of Access Manager Session Failover
Hardware and Software Requirements
Deployment Scenarios
Installation of Session Failover Components
Configuration of Session Failover
Modify the AMConfig.properties Files
Disable Cookie Encoding
Edit the Web Container server.xml File
Add a New User in the Message Queue Server
Create a Secondary Configuration Instance for the Load Balancer
Edit the amsessiondb Script (if Needed)
Access Manager Session Failover Scripts
amsessiondb
amsfopasswd
Startup of Session Failover Components
Start the Message Queue Brokers
Start the Berkeley DB Client (amsessiondb)
Start Each Access Manager Instance
Federation Management

Appendix A   Installed Product Layout
Base Installation Directory
Product Directory
/bin Directory
/amtune Directory
/docs Directory
/dtd Directory
/include Directory
/ldaplib/ Directory
/lib Directory
/locale Directory
/migration Directory
/public_html Directory
/samples Directory
/share Directory
/upgrade Directory
/web-src Directory
/debug, /logs, and /tmp Directories
Configuration (/config) Directory

Appendix B   The User Session Life Cycle
Overview
The Request
The Authentication
The Session Token
The Policy
The Requested Page
Single Sign-On Requests
Thread One: Single Sign-On
Thread Two: Cross Domain Single Sign-On
Terminating a Session

Appendix C   Authenticate Against Active Directory
Overview
Point to Existing LDAP Authentication Module
Create New Active Directory Authentication Module
Multiple LDAP Sub-Configurations
Setting Up Active Directory Authentication
Troubleshooting
Quick Access To Access Manager
Reconfigure Using Directory Server

Appendix D   Installing in a chroot Environment
Appendix E   Load Balancer Configuration
Load Balancer Overview
Sticky Sessions
Resonate Central Dispatch Installation
Configuring the Load Balancer
To Configure Central Dispatch for setcookie
To Configure Access Manager for setcookie
To Configure Central Dispatch with Load Balancer Cookies
To Configure Access Manager with Load Balancer Cookies
Confirming The Configuration
Configuring SSL Termination for a Load Balancer
To configure SSL termination for a load balancer

Appendix F   Authenticate Against RADIUS Servers
Overview
RADIUS Server Configuration
Access Manager Configuration

Glossary

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