General Compatibility Information

• Access Manager Legacy Mode

• Access Manager Policy Agents

Access Manager Legacy Mode

If you are installing Access Manager with Sun Java System Portal Server, you must select the Access Manager Legacy (6.x) mode.To determine the more for an Access Manager 7.1 installation, see Determining the Access Manager Mode.

Configure Automatically During Installation Option

If you are running the Java ES Installer in graphical mode with the Configure automatically during installation option, the Access Manager is configured in "Legacy (version 6.x style)" mode.

Configure Manually After Installation Option

If you ran the Java ES Installer with the Configure Manually After Installation option, you must run the install-dir\identity\setup\amconfig.bat file to configure Access Manager after installation. To select Legacy (6.x) mode, set the following parameter in your configuration file

AM_REALM = disabled

...
install-dir\identity\setup\AMConfigurator.properties
...

Determining the Access Manager Mode

To determine whether a running Access Manager 7.1 installation has been configured in Realm or Legacy mode, type:

http(s)://host:port/amserver/SMSServlet?method=isRealmEnabled

A return value of true indicates Realm mode. A return value of false indicates Legacy mode.

Access Manager Policy Agents

The following table shows the compatibility of Policy Agents with the Access Manager 7.1 modes.

Table 1–3 Policy Agents Compatibility With Access Manager 7.1 Modes

Agent and Version	Compatible Mode
Web and J2EE agents, version 2.2	Legacy and Realm modes
Web agents, version 2.1	Legacy and Realm modes
J2EE agents, version 2.1	Legacy mode only