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.
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 MicrosoftTM Active Directory)
Relational Database Management Systems (through customer plug-in implementations only)
Flat files (default text file format for configuration data)
Federation Manager does not come with a user administration system.
You can install Federation Manager on the following platforms running the applicable operating systems.
Table 1–2 Operating Systems
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 |