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| Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent Guide |
About This GuideThis Policy Agent Guide offers an introduction to SunTM ONE Identity Server Policy Agent and describes how to install and configure Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent on Web Servers, Proxy Servers, and Application Servers.
This preface contains the following sections:
- What You Are Expected to Know
- Identity Server Documentation Set
- What's in This Guide
- Documentation Conventions Used in This Manual
- Related Information
What You Are Expected to Know
This book is considered to be an auxiliary manual in the documentation series provided with Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0. It's essential that you understand directory technologies and have some experience with Java and XML programming languages. You will get the most out of this guide if you are familiar with directory servers and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Particularly, you should be familiar with Sun ONE Directory Server and the documentation provided with that product.
This guide is intended for use by IT professionals who manage access to their network through Sun ONE servers and services. The functionality contained in Sun ONE Identity Server allows you to manage user data and enforce access policies throughout your enterprise.
As you try to understand the concepts described in this guide, you should reference the Sun ONE Identity Server Installation and Configuration Guide and the Sun ONE Identity Server Programmer's Guide.
Identity Server Documentation Set
The Sun ONE Identity Server documentation set contains the following titles:
- Product Brief provides an overview of the Sun ONE Identity Server application and its features and functions.
- Installation Guide provides details on how to install and deploy the Identity Server on Solaris™, Linux and Windows® 2000 systems.
- Administration Guide describes how to use the Identity Server console as well as manage user and service data via the command line.
- Programmer's Guide documents how to customize an Identity Server system specific to your organization. It also includes instructions on how to augment the application with new services using the public APIs.
- Policy Agent Guide (this guide) documents how to install and configure an Identity Server policy agent on a remote server. It also includes troubleshooting and information specific to each agent.
- Getting Started Guide documents how to use various features of the Identity Server product to set up a simple organization with identities, policies and roles.
- The Release Notes file gathers an assortment of last-minute information, including a description of what is new in this release, known problems and limitations, installation notes, and how to report problems.
Note Be sure to check the Identity Server documentation web site for updates to the release notes and for revisions to the guides. They are available at http://docs.sun.com/db/prod/s1idsrv#hic. Updated documents will be marked with a revision date.
What's in This Guide
The following table lists all the Agents documented in this Guide.
Documentation Conventions Used in This Manual
In the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 documentation set (such as this guide) there are certain typographic and terminology conventions used to simplify discussion and to help you better understand the material. These conventions are described below.
Typographic Conventions
This book uses the following typographic conventions:
- Italic type is used within text for book titles, new terminology, emphasis, and words used in the literal sense.
- Monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), filenames, pathnames, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.
- Italic serif font is used within code and code fragments to indicate variable placeholders. For example, the following command uses filename as a variable placeholder for an argument to the gunzip command:
gunzip -d filename.tar.gz
Terminology
Below is a list of the general terms that are used in the Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent documentation:
- Agent_Install_Dir is a variable placeholder for the directory where you have installed the Sun ONE Identity Server Policy Agent.
- S1IS_Install_Dir is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0.
- WebLogic_Install_Dir is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed WebLogic Server.
Related Information
In addition to the documentation provided with Sun ONE Identity Server, there are several other sets of documentation that might be helpful. This section lists these and additional sources of information.
iPlanet Directory Server Documentation
iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 documentation can be found at http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/S1_ipDirectoryServer_51
iPlanet/Sun ONE Web Server Documentation
iPlanet/Sun ONE Web Server documentation can be found at http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/S1_ipwebsrvree60_en
Sun ONE Certificate Server Documentation
Sun ONE Certificate Server documentation can be found at http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/S1_s1CertificateServer_47.
iPlanet Proxy Server Documentation
iPlanet Proxy Server documentation can be found at http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/S1_ipwebproxysrvr36.
Other iPlanet Product Documentation
Documentation for all other Sun ONE servers and technologies can be found at http://docs.sun.com/prod/ds/sunone
Download Center
Links to download any of Sun's Sun ONE/iPlanet software are at http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/.
Sun ONE Technical Support
Technical Support can be contacted through http://www.sun.com/service/support/software/iplanet/index.html
Professional Services Information
Professional Service can be contacted through http://www.sun.com/service/sunps/iplanet/
Sun Enterprise Services for Solaris Patches And Support
Solaris patches and support can be obtained through http://www.sun.com/service/
Developer Information
Information on Sun™ ONE Identity Server, LDAP, the Sun ONE Directory Server, and associated technologies can also be found at http://developer.iplanet.com/tech/directory/