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How to Deploy CA CloudMinder

As a hosting administrator, you need an understanding of the high-level procedures for installing and configuring CA CloudMinder. This overview describes the process for creating a CA CloudMinder environment and includes links to detailed instructions.

1. Install CA 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 managed 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

In the SSO Getting Started Guide, the following topics describe how to configure common combinations of services:

• SSO Using Advanced Authentication and Provisioning
• SSO Using a Third-Party IdP and Self-Registration
• SSO Using an OAuth Authentication Scheme and Self-Registration