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Configure a SiteMinder WSS Agent and Register a Trusted Host

You configure a SiteMinder WSS Agent and register the system that hosts it as a trusted host using the CA SiteMinder® Web Services Security Configuration Wizard.

Run the SiteMinder WSS Agent Configuration Program on UNIX or Linux Systems

You can configure your SiteMinder WSS Agents and register a trusted host immediately after installing the SiteMinder WSS Agent or at a later time; however, the host must be registered to communicate with the Policy Server.

Note: You only register the host once, not each time you install and configure a SiteMinder WSS Agent on your system.

These instructions are for GUI and Console Mode registration. The steps for the two modes are the same, with the following exceptions for Console mode:

To configure Agents and register a trusted host

  1. If necessary, start the Configuration Wizard as follows:
    1. Open a console window.
    2. Navigate to agent_home/install_config_info, where agent_home is the installed location of the SiteMinder WSS Agent.
    3. Enter one of the following commands:

      GUI Mode: ./ca-pep-config.bin

      Console Mode: ./ca-pep-config.bin -i console

    The Configuration Wizard starts.

  2. Use gathered system and component information to configure the SiteMinder WSS Agent and register the host.

    Note: If you choose to configure multiple Agents, you can set the Register with same Policy Server option to register them all with the same Policy Server.

When the wizard completes, the host is registered and a host configuration file, SmHost.conf, is created in agent_home/config. You can modify this file.

agent_home

Is the installed location of the SiteMinder WSS Agent