Administration Guide › Administrating CA SiteMinder® SPS › Configuration Methods of CA SiteMinder® SPS › Configure the Federation Settings

Configure the Federation Settings

The federation settings enable CA SiteMinder® SPS to act as a federation gateway within a CA SiteMinder® federation network.

You can configure the settings manually or using Administrative UI.

To configure manually, perform the following steps:

1. Open the server.conf file.
2. Navigate to the federation section.
3. Configure the following parameters:

   enablefederationgateway

   Enables CA SiteMinder® SPS to act as a federation gateway proxy server.

   authurlcontext

   Specifies the alias to the redirect.jsp file. When a user requests a protected federation resource and they do not have a SiteMinder session at the site that produces assertions, the user is sent to this URL which points to a redirect.jsp file. The user is redirected to the Web Agent at the producing site where they are presented with an authentication challenge and upon successfully logging in, establish a session.

4. Save the changes.

To configure using Administrative UI, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to Proxy Configuration, Federation.
2. Configure the following fields:

   Enable Federation Gateway

   Enables CA SiteMinder® SPS to act as a federation gateway proxy server.

   Authentication URL

   Specifies the alias to the redirect.jsp file. When a user requests a protected federation resource and they do not have a SiteMinder session at the site that produces assertions, the user is sent to this URL which points to a redirect.jsp file. The user is redirected to the Web Agent at the producing site where they are presented with an authentication challenge and upon successfully logging in, establish a session.