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CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Guide › Load Balancing Support for Federation System › How to Configure Load Balancing › Configure the Load Balancer

Configure the Load Balancer

Configure the load balancer to work in a network with CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone. Use the load balancer host and port to redirect a user who requests a resource that resides on the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone system. Use of the load balancer host and port applies to all resources on the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone system.

Note: This procedure assumes that the load balancer administrator knows how to set up the system in the deployment.

Follow these steps:

  1. Configure the load balancer to map IP addresses and host names for the federation deployment.
  2. Configure the load balancer for the deployment, making sure to pass the following URLs through to the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone systems:

    These URLs enable the load balancer to balance traffic between the federation systems.

  3. (Optional) Configure the load balancer to handle SSL traffic.

    If the load balancer is SSL-enabled, all federation traffic comes in to the load balancer over SSL. However, the load balancer sends the traffic to the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone systems over a non-SSL (HTTP) connection.

The load balancer is now configured to work with CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone systems.