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Framework and Traditional Agent Architectures

All CA SiteMinder® agents are based on one of the following architectures:

• Traditional agents are based on the original CA SiteMinder® agent architecture.
• Framework Agents were introduced with CA SiteMinder® version 5.x QMR 6.

Agent Features are primarily the same regardless of the architecture, but some minor differences exist. For example, framework agents use a different WebAgent.conf file and a LocalConfig.conf file. Traditional agents do not use those files.

Traditional agents are installed on the following web servers:

• Domino (all supported versions)

Framework Agents are installed on the following web servers:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, 7.5
• Apache 2.0.54, 2.2.x, and other Apache 2.0-based servers, such as the IBM HTTP Server and the HP Apache server
• Oracle iPlanet Web Server versions 6.1 and above.

Note: The Oracle iPlanet Web Server was previously named "Sun Java Systems" or "SunONE".

More information:

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