CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Guide › Getting Started with a Simple Partnership › Configure the IdP Partner › Establish a User Directory Connection

Establish a User Directory Connection

Before you can establish a partnership, define a connection to a user directory.

The procedures that follow illustrate a connection to an ODBC user directory using the default data source that is installed with the product.

Important! The CA FedManager Data Source is where federation system policies are stored. For this example, use this data source as a user directory; however, in a production environment use a different data source.

To use this data source:

• Set up the schema for the sample users for the data source.
• Establish a connection to the directory.