CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Guide › Getting Started with a Simple Partnership › Configure the SP 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 CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone.

Important! The CA FedManager Data Source is where CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone 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.