CA SSO Agent for Oracle PeopleSoft Guide › Pre-Installation Steps

Pre-Installation Steps

This section contains the following topics:

System Requirements

Determining User Attributes of PeopleSoft Username

System Requirements

The minimum requirements for using this product are as follows:

• Policy Server
• A web server with a Web Agent installed
• PeopleTools
• PeopleSoft components for web access—typically a WebLogic/WebSphere Application Server, the PeopleSoft servlets and support libraries
• Any necessary components to enable the Web Agent’s web server to serve as a gateway to the PeopleSoft application suite

Determining User Attributes of PeopleSoft Username

As a pre-installation step, determine the user attributes of the PeopleSoft username.

A user attribute within the directory should contain the user’s existing PeopleSoft username. PeopleSoft’s existing concept of a user remains intact in this product. The existing roles, access permissions, and other user data remain untouched. CA SSO retrieves a user attribute from the user directory and inserts that value as an HTTP header. Signon PeopleCode retrieves this data, and after verification, provides it to PeopleSoft as the user’s identity.

Because the Signon PeopleCode may be customized, the behavior can be significantly altered. For example, the mapping of a CA SSO username to a PeopleSoft username could be created in a database table within PeopleSoft. PeopleCode could use that table to retrieve the user’s actual username at signon and alter the call to SetAuthenticationResult to use the new value.