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Affiliate Domain Overview

An affiliate domain is a logical grouping of federated entities associated with one or more user directories.

The affiliate domain not only contains federated entities but it also defines which user directories are associated with the domain. To authenticate a user, SiteMinder must have access to the user directory where a user record is defined. The Policy Server locates a user record by querying the user directories specified in the affiliate domain's search order.

The search order is defined when you add user directory connections to an affiliate domain. You have the option of shifting the order of directories.

The following illustration shows a partner program administrator for the affiliate domain that can manage properties for each consumer. The marketing administrator does not have these privileges.

Affiliate domains require one or more administrator accounts that can modify the objects in the domain. System-level administrators can manage all objects in any domain; they have the privilege Manage Affiliates. A system administrator that can grant control over a policy domain to other administrators has the privilege Manage System and Domain Objects.

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