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Solution 1: SSO Based on Account Linking

Solution 1 illustrates how Federation Security Services can be deployed at smcompany.com and ahealthco.com to solve Use Case 1: Single Sign-on Based on Account Linking.

The following figure shows the solution based on account linking.

SPS--Account Linking Solution

SiteMinder v6.x is deployed at both sites and the installations are the same for both smcompany.com and ahealthco.com. The SPS with the Web Agent Option Pack or the SPS federation gateway can be installed on the Web server system and the Policy Server with the Policy Server Option Pack are installed on another machine.

The FWS application at the producing side provides the service that retrieves assertions. The FWS application at the consuming side provides the service that consumes assertions.