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Updating UDS Configurations

User Data Service (UDS) is a user virtualization layer that enables access to the third-party data repositories (such as LDAP directory servers) that are already deployed by your organization. UDS enables CA Risk Authentication Server and CA Advanced Authentication to seamlessly access your existing data and leverage end-user information, without having to duplicate it in the standard CA Risk Authentication SQL database tables.

CA Risk Authentication can access user data either from a relational database (RDBMS) or directly from an LDAP server:

• If you are using a relational database, then you just need to seed the database with CA Risk Authentication schema as a part of the post-installation configurations.
• If you are using an LDAP directory server and you want CA Risk Authentication Server and CA Advanced Authentication to seamlessly access it, then you must deploy User Data Service as a part of the post-installation configurations.