Hardware and Software Requirements

The following sections describe hardware and software requirements for this release of Federation Manager. If you have questions about support for other versions of these components, contact your Sun Microsystems technical representative.

Data Stores

Federation Manager configuration data, user authentication data and user federation data can be managed and retrieved from a database of the following type:

• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version 3 compliant directories (for example, Sun Java System Directory Server or Microsoft^TM Active Directory)

• Relational Database Management Systems (through customer plug-in implementations only)

• Flat files (default text file format for configuration data)

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Note –

Federation Manager does not come with a user administration system.

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Platforms and Operating Systems

You can install Federation Manager on the following platforms running the applicable operating systems.

Table 1–2 Operating Systems

Platform	Operating System	Version
Sparc®	Solaris	8 / 9 / 10
x86	Solaris	9 / 10
x86	Linux	Red HatTM Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0, and 4.0
x86	Windows	Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 or above Windows 2000 Server SP4 or above Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4 or above Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 Windows 2003 Enterprise Server Note – Federation Manager was only tested on Windows 2003 Enterprise Server.

Supported Web Containers

Federation Manager can be deployed in the following web containers. CPU and memory requirements are based on the needs of the web container.

Table 1–3 Supported Web Containers

Web Container	Minimum Version
Sun Java System Web Server	6.1sp4
Sun Java System Application Server	8.1
BEA WebLogic® Server	8.1
WebSphere® Application Server	5.1