Choose Which Components to Configure

The third panel in the configuration program asks which Delegated Administrator components you want to configure:

• Delegated Administrator Utility (client)—the command-line interface invoked with commadmin.

• Delegated Administrator Server—the Delegated Administrator server components required to run the Delegated Administrator utility and console.

• Delegated Administrator Console—the Delegated Administrator graphical user interface (GUI).

The configuration program displays different panels depending on which components you select.

The following steps summarize the configuration choices. Each summary step (below) links you to a section (later in this chapter) that walks you through the actual configuration panels.

Summary of Configuration Choices

Steps

1. Starting the Configuration

   Enter the information requested in these panels to begin the configuration.

2. Configuring the Delegated Administrator Utility

   These panels follow directly after the Select Components to Configure panel. They ask for information used to configure the Delegated Administrator utility.

   The Delegated Administrator utility is required and must be configured on all machines on which you install a Delegated Administrator component (server or console).

   Therefore, you always must enter the information in these panels.

3. Configuring the Delegated Administrator Console

   These panels follow the panels that configure the utility.

   You can choose whether or not to configure the Delegated Administrator console.

   • If you deploy the Delegated Administrator console and server on the same machine, you would select both the console and the server in Select Components to Configure panel.

   • You also can deploy the Delegated Administrator console and server on different machines.

     On the machine on which you deploy the console, you would select only the console on the Select Components to Configure panel. (The utility is always selected.)

     In this case, you must run the configuration program again on the machine on which you deploy the server.

     If you deploy the console and server on different machines, the utility is configured on both machines.

   The configuration program displays different panels depending on which Web container you select for the console. You can deploy to one of the following Web containers:

   • Sun Java System Web Server

   • Sun Java System Application Server 7.x

   • Sun Java System Application Server 8.x

   If you are configuring the Delegated Administrator server and console on one machine, you will go through these instructions twice (once for the server, once for the console).

4. Configuring the Delegated Administrator Server

   These panels follow the panels that configure the console.

   You can choose whether or not to configure the Delegated Administrator server on a given machine.

   If you do not choose to configure the server on a given machine, the configuration program warns you that you must configure it on another machine. The server component is required for running the utility and console.

   All other considerations for deploying the server are the same as those for the console, as(described in Configuring the Delegated Administrator Console.

   Note also that the server uses the same Web container as Access Manager. (The configuration program asks for Web container information after it asks for Access Manager base directory.)

5. Completing the Configuration

   Enter the information requested in these panels to complete the configuration.