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Architectural Considerations

Your Enterprise Environment

CA SiteMinder® implementations are highly dependent on the environments in which you deploy them. We recommend that you develop a plan that breaks your implementation into steps that make sense for your enterprise. As you plan the deployment, there are many questions for consideration.

The answers to these questions are critical to planning your CA SiteMinder® implementation.

Operating Systems

CA SiteMinder® components are supported across multiple platforms, the details of which are located in the CA SiteMinder® Platform Support Matrix. Which of the following operating systems has your enterprise deployed?

Microsoft^® Windows^®
Oracle^® Solaris^™
Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^®
Novell^® SUSE^® Linux
Hewlett–Packard Company UNIX (HP–UX)
IBM^® AIX^®
IBM z/OS^®

Note: For the specific versions of supported operating systems, see the CA SiteMinder® Platform Support Matrix.

Use the following table to help determine if the operating systems your enterprise has deployed are currently supported for the required CA SiteMinder® components.

Component	Required?	Operating Systems
Policy Server	Yes
Agent	Yes
Administrative UI	Yes
Report Server	No

Note: Additional non–platform requirements exist for each of these components, for example, minimum memory requirements. For more information about non–platform requirements for the Policy Server, the Administrative UI, and the Report Server, see the Policy Server Installation Guide. For more information about non–platform requirements for an Agent, see the specific CA SiteMinder® Agent documentation.

More information:

Locate the Platform Support Matrix

Web Server Vendors

You can install and configure CA SiteMinder® Agents to protect resources on web servers. Which of the following supported server vendors has your enterprise deployed?

Apache^™ HTTP Server
Apache Tomcat
Hewlett–Packard Company (HP) Apache
IBM HTTP Server
IBM Lotus^® Domino
Microsoft IIS
Oracle^® HTTP Server
Red Hat Apache
Sun Java^™ System

Note: For the specific versions of the supported web servers, refer to the CA SiteMinder® Platform Support Matrix.

If you use other web servers not listed here, consider using CA SiteMinder® SPS to protect the resources on these web servers.

Application Server Vendors

You can install and configure CA SiteMinder® agents to protect resources on J2EE application servers. Which of the following supported server vendors has your enterprise deployed?

Oracle WebLogic^®
IBM WebSphere^®
RedHat JBoss^®

Note: For the specific versions of supported application servers, refer to the CA SiteMinder® Platform Support Matrix.

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

You can install and configure Agents to protect resources on ERP systems. Which of the following supported ERP vendors has your enterprise deployed?

Oracle PeopleSoft^®
Oracle Siebel^®
SAP^®

Note: For the specific versions of supported ERP systems, see the CA SiteMinder® Platform Support Matrix.

Directory Servers and Databases

CA SiteMinder® data stores are supported across multiple directory servers and databases. Which supported vendors has your enterprise deployed?

Note: For more information, see the Platform Support Matrix.

Use the following table to help determine if the directory server and database types your enterprise has deployed are currently supported for the components your implementation requires.

Component	Required	LDAP?
Policy store	Yes
User store connection	Yes
Administrative user store	No
Audit database	No	N/A
Key store	No
Session store	No	N/A

More information:

Locate the Platform Support Matrix