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Administrative UI Upgrade Options

Consider the following upgrade options:

Administrative UI Protection with SiteMinder

You can protect an r12.5 Administrative UI with SiteMinder. Protecting the Administrative UI requires that you complete the following steps:

  1. Configure an agent to work with a reverse proxy server.

    Note: For more information about configuring a reverse proxy server, see the Web Agent Configuration Guide.

  2. Configure an external administrator store. You enable SiteMinder authentication when you configure the store.

    Note: For more information about configuring an external administrator store, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.

If you have configured an r12.x Administrative UI with an external administrator store and you want to enable SiteMinder authentication, complete the following steps:

  1. Configure an agent to work with a reverse proxy server.
  2. Reconfigure the external administrator store with the required agent settings.

Important! The Administrative UI does not retain the settings when you reconfigure the store. Before you reconfigure the connection, we recommend that you view the connection and record the settings.

Single Sign–on

You can maintain single sign–on during the migration to r12.5. Consider the following items:

Certificate Data Management

The certificate data store is replacing the SiteMinder key database (smkeydatabase). If you have one or more smkeydatabases deployed in your environment, consider the following items:

More information:

Synchronize Key Database Instances

Deprecated SiteMinder Key Tool Options

Federation Integration

All Federation Security Services functionality available in an r12.x FSS Administrative UI has been moved to the Administrative UI. If you were managing a federated environment, this functionality is referred to as legacy federation.

The Administrative UI also includes partnership federation. This functionality is specific to the partnership–based federation that Federation Manager makes available.

Avoid Policy Store Corruption

To avoid possible policy store corruption, be sure that the server that is hosting policy store is configured to store objects in UTF-8 form.

Note: For more information about configuring your server to store objects in UTF-8 form, see your vendor–specific documentation.

Advanced Password Services

If you have deployed Advanced Password Services, a Policy Server upgrade retains all LANG (translation), CFG (configuration), and mail files. The default r12.5 versions of the files are installed to siteminder_home\samples.

siteminder_home

Specifies the Policy Server installation path.