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Architectural Use Cases

The purpose of the following use cases is to get you thinking about your SiteMinder architecture in terms of high availability and performance. The use cases begin with a simple deployment and progress into more complex scenarios. Each case is based on the idea of a logical "block" of SiteMinder components and illustrates how an environment can contain multiple blocks to address the following architectural considerations:

• Redundancy
• Failover
• Capacity and scale
• Multiple cookie domains

Extrapolate the necessary infrastructure from these cases to:

• Determine how to implement redundancy and high availability between SiteMinder components
• Determine how to implement multiple data centers
• Support the usage metrics you gather from capacity planning
• Support your implementation considerations
• Begin the iterative process of performance tuning the environment