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Configure a SiteMinder Agent Authenticator for an Individual Application

To configure a web application to use a specific SiteMinder Agent Authenticator to handle requests, define a context.xml file in the application WEB-INF directory. Configuring a context.xml file overrides the global authenticators defined in jboss-service.xml (JBoss 4.x) or war-deployers-jboss-beans.xml (JBoss 5.x).

To configure a web application to use a specific SiteMinder Agent Authenticator

1. Navigate to the application WEB-INF directory.
2. Open a text editor.
3. Define a context element containing a valve subelement that specifies the class name of the SiteMinder Agent Authenticator which you want to handle application requests.

   To configure the application to use SMJBossBasicAuthenticator, type:

   <Context cookies="true" crossContext="true">
     <Valve className="com.ca.soa.agent.appserver.authenticator.jBoss.SMJBossBasicAuthenticator"/>
   </Context>
   

   To configure the application to use the SMJBossFormAuthenticator, type:

   <Context cookies="true" crossContext="true">
     <Valve className="com.ca.soa.agent.appserver.authenticator.jBoss.SMJBossFormAuthenticator"/>
   </Context>
   

   To configure the application to use SMJBossClientCertAuthenticator, type:

   <Context cookies="true" crossContext="true">
     <Valve className="com.ca.soa.agent.appserver.authenticator.jBoss.SMJBossClientCertAuthenticator"/>
   </Context>
   

   To configure the application to use SMJBossDigestAuthenticator, type:

   <Context cookies="true" crossContext="true">
     <Valve className="com.ca.soa.agent.appserver.authenticator.jBoss.SMJBossDigestAuthenticator"/>
   </Context>
   

   To configure the application to use the SMJBossIdentityAsserter, type:

   <Context cookies="true" crossContext="true">
     <Valve className="com.ca.soa.agent.appserver.authenticator.jBoss.SMJBossIdentityAsserter"/>
   </Context>
   

4. Save the file as context.xml and exit the text editor.