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Federation Manager Components

Federation Manager includes the following components:

• Secure proxy engine

  Forwards traffic to backend servers. This engine employs web server, servlet engine, proxy server and federation web services features.

  The secure proxy engine includes the following components:

  • Apache Web Server

    Acts as the HTTP listener, handling HTTP traffic for incoming requests, and can handle HTTPS traffic, once properly configured.

  • Tomcat server

    Provides a servlet container for the operation of the Federation Manager UI. The Apache web server communicates to the Tomcat server via a Tomcat connector called mod_jk.

• Federation server

  Enables user directory connectivity, authentication functions, and session store abilities.

• Extensible policy store

  Stores all Federation Manager data objects.

• Web-based user interface

  Administers the configuration of federation entities and partnerships, private keys and certificates, and various server settings.