Manual Deployment Prerequisites

This deployment assumes that you know how to do the following:

Install and configure the SOA Security Manager Policy Server and Web Agent and any associated Option Pack.
Enable a Web or application server for SSL communication (needed for artifact binding).
Work with certificates and understand certificate operation, such as how to request a certificate and have it signed by a certificate authority, know the difference between a private key and a public key.
Add users to a user store. For example, if you have a Sun ONE Directory Server, you must know how to use the Sun ONE Server Console.
Set up an ODBC database to be enabled as a session store.
For instructions on setting up a session store database, see the Policy Server Installation Guide. Enable the session store using the Policy Server Management Console.