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Application Tier

This layer constitutes CA Strong Authentication Server, your application that use the SDKs and the application servers where the Administration Console and the User Data Service (UDS) reside.

Note: All components in this layer can be installed on one system or can be distributed across multiple systems.

• CA Strong Authentication Server

  Server component that processes issuance and authentication requests from your application through CA Strong Authentication SDKs.

• Administration Console

  Web-based console for configuring server instances, communication mode between CA Strong Authentication components, authentication policies, credential profiles, managing credentials, and for managing organizations, administrators, and users.

• User Data Service

  The abstraction layer that provides access to user- and organization-related data from different types of user repositories, such as Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs) and directory servers (LDAPs).

• Authentication API

  Java APIs that can be invoked by your application to forward authentication requests to CA Strong Authentication Server.

• Credential Management API

  Java APIs that can be invoked by your application to forward issuance requests to CA Strong Authentication Server for creating and managing user credentials in CA Strong Authentication.

• User Management API

  Web Services client that can be invoked by your application to forward issuance requests to User Data Service for creating and managing users in CA Strong Authentication.

• Sample Application

  Sample Application demonstrates the use of CA Strong Authentication Java APIs and how your application can integrate with CA Strong Authentication.