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How To Configure Failover with SSL Enabled

You can enable SSL in a failover environment whether Federation Manager is sitting behind a load balancer or a proxy server. There are specific configuration instructions for this type of setup.

Configuring SSL-enabled failover requires the following tasks:

• Installing Federation Manager on at least two systems.
• Running the Configuration wizard on the two Federation Manager systems.
• Enabling SSL for the embedded Apache Web Server (only if Federation Manager is behind a load balancer).
• Migrating the SSL configuration from the primary to the secondary system (only if Federation Manager is behind a load balancer).
• Setting up a proxy server or load balancer that will manage failover of the Federation Manager systems.

We recommend that you configure each Federation Manager system before configuring failover for the proxy server or load balancer.