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System and Installation Prerequisites

The minimum system requirements for CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone are:

Memory

2 GB (minimum)

Disk Space

3 GB minimum (1 GB disk space, 2 GB temporary file location)

Browser

Windows Internet Explorer; Mozilla FireFox

Supported Operating System

Windows, Solaris, Linux

For specific version information, see the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Platform Support Matrix on the Technical Support site.

Installation Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are necessary for a successful installation.

Note: Review the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Release Notes for more information about specific platforms.

Oracle or SQL Server database

The policy, key, and session stores use the server database. Install a database and name the database instance. This instance name is used later when running the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Configuration wizard.

Important! Multiple CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone servers can share a database instance, but the database instance must be dedicated for your federation environment. Do not share the database instance with servers for other applications, such as a CA SiteMinder® server. Though CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone systems need a dedicated database instance, they do not need a dedicated database server.

The database administrator must have privileges to create tables in the database and populate the database with data.

For specific version information, see the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Platform Support Matrix on the Technical Support site.

Java

• A supported JDK is required. For specific version information, see the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Platform Support Matrix on the Technical Support site.
• The current Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction patches are required to use the Java cryptographic algorithms. To locate the JCE package for your operating platform, go to the Oracle website.

  Apply the patches to the following files on your system:

  • local_policy.jar
  • US_export_policy.jar

  These files are in the following directories:

  Windows: jre_home\lib\security

  UNIX: jre_home/lib/security

  jre_home

  This variable specifies the location of the Java Runtime Environment installation.

Javascript

Javascript must be enabled.

Windows

Run the installation as an administrator and stop and start the federation services as an administrator.

Solaris and Linux

• Do not install CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone as the root user. If you try to install as a root user, the installation aborts and you receive an error message. Instead, create a user account to install CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone.
• Avoid running CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone on UNIX platforms using any port below 1024. This recommendation includes the default Apache HTTP port (80) and the default Apache SSL port (443).
• The installation program requires 32-bit system libraries, even if you are installing on a 64-bit system. Install the 32-bit libraries on the 64-bit system before running the installation.

  On Linux systems, run the updatedb command after installing the 32-bit libraries. The updatedb command ensures that the operating system is aware of the new libraries.

• Install X11 (32-bit) library packages so you can run a GUI mode installation on an xterminal. These packages are required.

Linux Only

• Linux-specific Java requirements:
  • Verify that the required version of the JDK is present in the system path.
  • Verify that no other versions of Java other than the required version are installed. (OpenJDK is sometimes installed with Red Hat.) If OpenJDK is present, run the following command to remove it:

    yum erase openjdk
    

  • To run a Java-based GUI, your system must have the necessary package, such as libXsts. The necessary package is typically available on your system by default.
• Required symbolic link between /dev/urandom and /dev/random:

  A reboot can remove the required symbolic link between /dev/urandom and /dev/random. If this symbolic link is missing, the CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone services can fail to start.

  To reinstate the symbolic link, enter the following command:

  rm dev/random;ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
  

• Firewall:

  The firewall must be disabled.

  To disable the firewall, run the following commands:

  /etc/init.d/iptables stop
  chkconfig iptables off
  

• Library dependencies:
  • mlocate.86_64
  • glibc.i686
  • libstdc++.i686
  • compat-expat1.i686
  • libuuid.i686
  • ksh.86_64
  • For X-Windows:
    • libXext.i686
    • libXi.686
    • libXtst.686