Federation Manager Guide › Failover Support for Federation Manager › How to Configure Failover › Set up the Proxy Server or Load Balancer for Failover

Set up the Proxy Server or Load Balancer for Failover

This guide assumes that the administrator of the proxy server or load balancer knows how to set up failover for the system in his deployment.

To direct a proxy server or load balancer to failover to Federation Manager

1. Identify one Federation Manager system as the primary host and the other as the secondary host.

   Do not configure load balancing for the machines.

2. Configure the proxy server or load balancer to pass the following URLs to the Federation Manager machines:
   • /affwebservices/*
   • /siteminderagent/*

   All other traffic can be routed directly through Federation Manager, depending on the deployment mode (standalone or proxy).

The proxy server or load balancer is now configured.