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

Enable SSL Between CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone and a Backend Server

Your federated network can have CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone 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 CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone 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 CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone.

    Obtain this certificate from the administrator of the backend server.