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Install Federation Web Services at the Producer and Consumer

Federation Web Services (FWS) is a web application. FWS provides the SAML credential collector servlet, which consumes assertions and other services for federated network configurations.

To use the FWS application features, install the Web Agent and Web Agent Option Pack or the SPS federation gateway, which has FWS embedded at the producer and consumer sites.

For installation and configuration instructions, refer to the following:

• SiteMinder Web Agent Option Pack Guide
• CA SiteMInder Secure Proxy Server Administration Guide

Important! If you install a Web Agent, you must define a value for the Web Agent configuration parameter DefaultAgentName for all consumer Web Agents. This value specifies a Web Agent identity. Additionally, the specified Agent identity must be included in the Resource Filter of the realm that protects the target resource. You configure the DefaultAgentName parameter in the Agent Configuration Object or the local Agent configuration file. Omitting the DefaultAgentName parameter or using the value specified in the AgentName parameter in the realm resource filter causes SAML 1.x authentication to fail, regardless of the single sign-on profile.