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Introduction: How to Deploy CA CloudMinder

As a hosting administrator, you need a broad understanding of the high-level steps required to successfully install, deploy and configure a CloudMinder environment. You also need detailed instructions on each step in the process.

Use this overview to understand the general process and sequence of steps in creating your CloudMinder environment. Use the links associated with each topic to access detailed documentation on how to perform each step.

1. Install CloudMinder, including:
   • Installing all server components
   • Configuring load-balancing and high availability
   • Accessing logs

2. Replace default user accounts.

   For security reasons, we recommend that you replace default user account and passwords with your own secure administrator accounts.

3. Create and deploy tenants.

4. Configure the authentication method for the tenant.
   • Standard authentication
   • Advanced authentication, if applicable

5. Configure single sign-on, if applicable.

6. Configure your tenant user environment, including:
   • Assigning roles and adding administrators
   • Creating groups
   • Configuring endpoints to connect the system to external resources
   • Configuring provisioning to give users accounts in external resources
   • Configuring services to give users protected access to external resources

7. Add users to the tenant

For use cases that explain how to configure common combinations of services, see:

SSO Using Advanced Authentication and Provisioning (SSO Using Advanced Authentication and Provisioning for a Sensitive Application, HTML/idocs/integrated-sso-advauth-provisioning.html)

SSO Using a Third-Party IdP and Self-Registration

SSO Using an OAuth Authentication Scheme and Self-Registration