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Installing the Administrative UI

Installation Road Map

The following diagram illustrates a sample CA SiteMinder® installation and lists the order in which you install and configure each component.

• Solid lines surround the components that are required before installing and registering the Administrative UI. They include:
  • A Policy Server
  • A policy store

  If a Policy Server and a policy store are not part of your environment, install and configure both components before continuing.

• A dotted line surrounds the Administrative UI. Install this component now.

  Note: After you install and register the Administrative UI, you can prepare for a Web Agent installation, as illustrated by step five.

  

Administrative UI Installation Options

The Administrative UI requires an application server to run. Two installation options accommodate this requirement:

• Stand-alone installation—The installation that is described in the following sections is a stand-alone installation. This installation option creates the required application server infrastructure through a prerequisite installer. The prerequisite installer puts down an embedded application server (JBoss) and the required JDK. After a successful prerequisite installation, the program launches the Administrative UI installer.

  Note: If you are installing to UNIX and running the prerequisite installation media in console–mode, you manually start the Administrative UI installer to complete the installation.

• Existing application server installation—There is a second Administrative UI installation option. This option lets you install the Administrative UI on an existing application server infrastructure. The Administrative UI installer prompts for application server information and the location of the required JDK. For more information about installing to an existing application server infrastructure, see instructions for installing the Administrative UI to one of the supported application servers.

The following sections detail the stand–alone installation. For more information about installing to an existing application server infrastructure, see Installing the Administrative UI to an Existing Application Server.

More information:

Installing the Administrative UI to an Existing Application Server

Trusted Relationship between the UI and the Policy Server

The first time you log in to the Administrative UI using the default super user account (siteminder) and password, you establish a trusted relationship between the Administrative UI and a Policy Server. This relationship is required to manage your environment.

The super user account credentials are stored in the policy store. If you configure one of the default policy stores during the Policy Server installation, the installer submits these credentials automatically. If you configure the policy store independent of the Policy Server installation, use the XPSRegClient utility to submit the credentials to the Policy Server. The Policy Server uses these credentials to verify that the registration request is valid and that the relationship can be created.

Important! A 24-hour limit exists between the time the super user account credentials are submitted to the policy store and when the administrator logs in to the Administrative UI. If the credentials were set more than 24 hours before the initial log in to the Administrative UI, reset the credentials using the XPSRegClient utility.

Complete the Administrative UI Installation Checklist

The installation program creates the required application server infrastructure. This infrastructure includes an embedded application server (JBoss) and the required JDK. Verify that the Administrative UI host system meets the minimum system requirements before starting the installation.

Complete the following steps before you install the Administrative UI:

• Verify that you are using a supported operating system.
• Verify that the Administrative UI host system meets the minimum system requirements.
• (Linux) Be sure that the required Linux libraries are installed to the Administrative UI host system.
• Determine when the policy store was configured.

  If the policy store was configured more than 24 hours ago, use the XPSRegClient utility to submit the default CA SiteMinder® super user account credentials to the Policy Server before installing the Administrative UI. The Policy Server requires these credentials to create a trusted relationship with the Administrative UI.

Note: For a list of supported CA and third-party components, refer to the CA SiteMinder® 12.51 Platform Support Matrix on the Technical Support site.