CA Strong Authentication Windows Installation Guide › Plan the Deployment › Deployment Models

Deployment Models

CA Strong Authentication Server is the primary component that you install to authenticate users during deployment. Your applications on CA Strong Authentication Server can integrate with it by using Java SDKs or Web Services shipped with it.

An SQL database is required for storing server configuration data, user-specific preferences, and usage data.

Typically, all CA Strong Authentication components are installed on a single system for development and simple testing. However, in production deployments and staging environments, we recommended that CA Strong Authentication server be installed on its own system. The shipped SDKs or Web Services are installed on a different system or on systems that contain the application that users log in to.

CA Strong Authentication is also shipped with Sample Application to verify if it is installed properly and is able to perform user authentication. Sample Application also serves as a code sample for integrating CA Strong Authentication with existing application(s).

The high-level deployment types supported by CA Strong Authentication are:

• Single-System Deployment - For development or testing

  See "Deploy on a Single System" for more information.

• Distributed-System Deployment - For production or staging environments

  See "Deploy on Distributed Systems" for more information.

• High-Availability Deployment - For high availability and scalability, production, or staging environments

  See "Deploy in High-Availability Environment" for more information.