CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Guide › Application Integration at the Relying Party › Dynamic Provisioning of a User Identity at the Relying Party

Dynamic Provisioning of a User Identity at the Relying Party

In a federated network, it is not uncommon for the relying party to establish accounts for users federating from different asserting parties. Dynamic provisioning lets CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone support the process of creating client accounts with the necessary account rights and access privileges for accessing data and applications.

CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone offers two methods to support provisioning:

• Local account linking (SAML 2.0 only)
• Remote provisioning

Each method is described in the following sections.