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Enable the Message Consumer Plug-in in the UI

After writing a message consumer plug-in and compiling it, enable the plug-in by configuring settings in the Administrative UI. The UI settings tell CA SiteMinder® Federation where to find the plug-in.

Do not configure the plug-in settings until you deploy the plug-in.

To enable the message consumer plug-in

1. Log on to the Administrative UI.

   Select the Consumer-to-Producer or SP-to-IdP partnership that you want to modify.

2. Navigate to the User Identification step in the partnership wizard.
3. In the Message Consumer Plug-in section, complete the following fields:

   Plug-in Class

   Specify the Java class name for the plug-in, For example, a sample class included with the SDK is:

   com.ca.messageconsumerplugin.MessageConsumerPluginSample

   Plug-in Parameters

   Specify a string of parameters that are passed to the plug-in specified in the Full Java Class Name field.

4. Restart the federation services according to your operating environment.
   • Windows

     Use the stop and start shortcuts as follows. If you logged in as a network user and not a local administrator, right-click the shortcut and select Run as administrator.

     1. Start, All Programs, CA, Federation Standalone, Stop services
     2. Start, All Programs, CA, Federation Standalone, Start services
   • UNIX

     a. Open a command window.

     b. Run the following scripts:

     federation_install_dir/fedmanager.sh stop

     federation_install_dir/fedmanager.sh start

     Note: Do not stop and start the services as the root user.