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How to Deploy CA Strong Authentication on a Single System

The installation wizard guides you through the installation process. This Wizard supports Complete and Custom installation types. To install and configure CA Strong Authentication on a single computer, use the Complete option when you run the installer.

The following list provides a quick overview of the process:

1. Run the installer to add CA Strong Authentication components to your file-system and configure them to access your SQL database.

   See "Performing Complete Installation" for install instructions.

2. Run the database scripts to create schema and database tables. Also ensure that the database setup was successful.

   See "Running Database Scripts" and "Verifying the Database Setup" for more information.

3. Prepare the application server to copy the files that web components use.

   See "Preparing Your Application Server" for more information.

4. Deploy Administration Console on the application server and verify the deployment.

   See "Deploying Administration Console" and "Verifying the Administration Console" for more information.

5. Log in to Administration Console as the Master Administrator to initialize CA Strong Authentication.

   See "Logging In to Administration Console" and "Bootstrapping the System" for more information.

6. Start the CA Strong Authentication Server and verify if the service start successfully.

   See "Starting CA Strong Authentication Server" and "Verifying the Installation" for more information.

7. Deploy User Data Service on the application server and verify the deployment.

   See "Deploying User Data Service" for more information.

8. Deploy and use Sample Application to test CA Strong Authentication configuration.

   Note: Sample Application is automatically installed as a part of Complete installation.

   See "Deploying Sample Application" and "Using Sample Application" for more information.

9. (Optional) To ensure secure communication between the products components, you can configure them to support SSL.

   See "Configuring SSL" in CA CA Strong Authentication Administration Guide for more information.

10. Complete the installation checklist.

    See "Post-Installation Checklist" for more information.

Note the following:

• Verify that the <install_location> must not contain any special characters (such as ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + = { }[ ] ’ ").
• Currently, you cannot modify or repair CA Strong Authentication components by using the installer. Uninstall the component, and then re-install it.
• Do not close the installer window, if the installation is in progress. At any time during installation (especially during the last stages), if you click the Cancel button to abort the installation, then the installer may not remove all the directories it has created so far. Manually clean up the installation directory, <install_location>/arcot/ and its subdirectories.
• If you run the installer on a system that already contains an instance of an existing $ARCOT_HOME, then:
  • You are not prompted for an installation directory.
  • You are not prompted for the database setup. The Installer uses the existing database.
  • You are also not prompted to set up encryption.