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SiteMinder Integration

When CA Identity Manager integrates with SiteMinder, SiteMinder can add the following functionality to an Identity Manager environment:

• Advanced Authentication

  CA Identity Manager includes native authentication for Identity Manager Environments by default. CA Identity Manager administrators enter a valid username and password to log into an Identity Manager Environment. CA Identity Manager authenticates the name and password against the user store that CA Identity Manager manages.

  When CA Identity Manager integrates with SiteMinder, CA Identity Manager uses SiteMinder basic authentication to protect the Environment. When you create an Identity Manager Environment, a policy domain and an authentication scheme are created in SiteMinder to protect that Environment.

  When CA Identity Manager integrates with SiteMinder, you can also use SiteMinder authentication to protect the Management Console.

• Directory Mapping

  An administrator may need to manage users whose profiles exist in a different user store from the one that is used for authenticating the administrator. In other words, when logging in to the Identity Manager Environment, the administrator must be authenticated using one directory and authorized to manage users in a second directory.

  When CA Identity Manager integrates with SiteMinder, you can configure an Identity Manager Environment to use different directories for authentication and authorization.

• Advanced Password Policies

  CA Identity Manager enables you to create basic password policies that manage user passwords by enforcing rules and restrictions governing password expiration, composition, and usage.

  If you configure CA Identity Manager to integrate with SiteMinder, you can create advanced password policies that enable you to define the additional rules and restrictions.

  Note: For more information, see the Administration Guide.

• Skins for Different Sets of Users

  A skin changes the look of the User Console. When CA Identity Manager integrates with SiteMinder, you can enable different sets of users to see different skins. To accomplish this, you use a SiteMinder response to associate a skin with a set of users. The response is paired with a rule in a policy, which is associated with a set of users. When the rule fires, it triggers the response to pass information about the skin to CA Identity Manager, to build the User Console.

  Note: For more information, see the User Console Design Guide.

• Locale Preferences for a Localized Environment

  When CA Identity Manager integrates with SiteMinder, you can define a user's locale preference using an imlanguage HTTP header. In the SiteMinder Policy Server, you set this header within a SiteMinder response and specify a user attribute as the header's value. This imlanguage header acts as the highest priority locale preference for a user.

  Note: For more information, see the User Console Design Guide.

Note: For information on the components in a CA Identity Manager implementation that includes SiteMinder, see Installation with SiteMinder Policy Server.