Federation Manager Guide › Getting Started with a Simple Partnership › Configure the SP Partner › Establish a User Directory Connection

Establish a User Directory Connection

Before you can establish a partnership, define a connection to a user directory.

The procedures that follow illustrate a connection to an ODBC user directory using the default data source, CA FedManager Data Source, which is installed with Federation Manager.

To use this data source:

• Set up the schema for the sample users for the data source
• Establish a connection to the directory

Important! The CA FedManager Data Source is where Federation Manager policies are stored. For example purposes, use this data source as a user directory; however, in a production environment use a different data source.