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External Administrative User Store

(Optional) By default, the Administrative UI uses the policy store as its source for SiteMinder administrator credentials. This default configuration lets you manage the environment immediately after configuring a policy store and installing the Administrative UI. When you configure a policy store, the default SiteMinder super user account (siteminder) is created. This account has maximum system privileges, and is used to access the Administrative UI for the first–time and to create additional SiteMinder administrators.

You can configure the Administrative UI to use an external administrator user store, for example, a corporate directory. An external administrative user store is a connection to an LDAP directory server or ODBC database in your enterprise network. Consider the following:

• An Administrative UI can only connect to a single external administrative user store.
• An Administrative UI can be configured to managed multiple Policy Servers. If an Administrative UI is to manage multiple Policy Servers, a connection to an external administrator user store is required.
• If you configure more than one Administrative UI for high–availability, the same external administrative user store makes all administrators available to each Administrative UI.

Note: For more information about SiteMinder administrators and configuring an external administrative user store, see the documentation roadmap.