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How to Configure Failover with SSL Enabled

You can enable SSL in a failover environment whether your federation system is sitting behind a load balancer or a proxy server. There are specific configuration instructions for this type of setup.

Configuring SSL-enabled failover requires the following tasks:

• Installing CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone on at least two systems.
• Running the Configuration wizard on the two federation systems.
• Enabling SSL for the embedded Apache Web Server (only if the federation system is behind a load balancer).
• Migrating the SSL configuration from the primary to the secondary system (only if the federation system is behind a load balancer).
• Setting up a proxy server or load balancer that will manage failover of the federation systems.

We recommend that you configure each federation system before configuring failover for the proxy server or load balancer.