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Create an Authentication Scheme for the Agent for SharePoint

CA SiteMinder uses authentication schemes to collect credentials and determine the identity of a user. During authentication, the agent communicates with the Policy Server to determine the proper credentials to retrieve from a user who is requesting resources.

If you are an experienced CA SiteMinder user, you can use an existing authentication scheme instead of creating one.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Infrastructure, Authentication, Authentication Schemes, Create Authentication Scheme.

   The Create Authentication Scheme pane appears.

2. Select Create a new object of type Authentication Scheme option, and then click OK.

   The Create Authentication Scheme: Pane appears.

3. Enter a distinctive name, and (optional) description.
4. Select the type of Authentication Scheme from the Authentication Scheme Type list.

   The options for your chosen Authentication Scheme appear.

5. Complete the fields for your Authentication Scheme.
6. Click Submit.

   The Create Authentication Scheme task is submitted for processing and the confirmation screen appears.

Determine your policy model

CA SiteMinder supports the following policy models:

• Policy Domain (for protecting resources without CA DataMinder)
• Application (EPM) (for protecting resources with CA DataMinder)

For example, you can protect the SharePoint root site with a policy domain. If you have document libraries that you want to protect with CA DataMinder, create applications for those libraries. In this situation, use the same agent or agent group in both the policy domain and the application.