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Design a Redundant Architecture

To protect against failure of a critical component, consider the following protective actions using alternate components (servers and directories) and redundant databases at remote locations.

Configure redundancy for CA IdentityMinder, using the Installation Guide. Include the following components:

• Redundant CA IdentityMinder application server nodes as part of a cluster
• A Policy Server cluster provides failover (if you are using CA SiteMinder to protect CA IdentityMinder)
• Alternate Provisioning Servers, Provisioning Directories, and connector servers. If a primary component is lost, the system switches over to the alternate component.

Configure redundancy for databases including the following:

• Any of the runtime databases that are part of CA IdentityMinder such as the workflow or audit database.

  See the documentation supplied with ORACLE or Microsoft SQL Server.

• The Business Objects database if you are using the Report Server.

  See the Business Objects Enterprise, Release 2 and Release 2 SP 4 documentation on the SAP documentation web site.