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CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Installation and Upgrade Guide › Install CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone › Run the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Installation › Enable SSL Between the Federation System and a Backend Server

Enable SSL Between the Federation System and a Backend Server

Your federated network can have the federation system communicating to a backend server over an SSL connection. The network configuration is illustrated in the following figure.

Graphic showing SSL configuration between the Federation system and a Backend Server

Follow these steps:

  1. Configure the backend server for SSL.

    For instructions, refer to the documentation for the server.

  2. On the federation system, add the CA certificate that signed the server certificate to the file ca-bundle.cert. The server certificate is the one that the backend server used to enabled SSL.

    The ca-bundle.cert file resides in the directory federation_install_dir\secure-proxy\SSL\certs.

    federation_install_dir is the installed location of the product.

    Obtain this certificate from the administrator of the backend server.