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Overall Installation Process

To install CA Identity Manager, perform the following steps:

  1. Install the prerequisite hardware and software and configure your system as required.
  2. Install the CA Identity Manager components on one system or several systems or install the Identity Manager Server on an application server cluster.
  3. (Optional) Install alternate Provisioning Directories, alternate Provisioning Servers, and connector servers.
  4. (Optional) Install optional provisioning components.
  5. (Optional) Protect CA Identity Manager with SiteMinder.
  6. (Optional) Install the report server.

Note: In this document, each chapter includes a checklist of the steps to install or configure a CA Identity Manager feature or component. It is the section that begins with a How To title in each chapter. The appendix Installation Checklists includes all checklists. Print this appendix before you begin the installation.