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ADAM and AD LDS Server Information

If you are configuring Microsoft ADAM or AD LDS to function as a policy store gather the following required information:

• System IP address—Identify the IP address of the directory server host system.
• Port number—Identify the port number on which the directory server is listening.
• Root DN of the application partition—Identify the root DN location of the application partition in the directory server where the policy store schema data must be installed.

  Example: dc=ca,dc=com

• Administrator domain name—Identify the full domain name, including the guid value, of the directory administrator.

  Example: CN=user1,CN=people,CN=Configuration,CN=guid

• Administrator password—Identify the password of the directory administrator.
• Alternate user account—By default, SiteMinder uses the administrator account to communicate with the directory server. However, you can use a different user account to administer the policy store. Identify the complete administrator DN and password to configure SiteMinder to use an alternative user account to administer the policy store.

  Note: This user must have the necessary permissions to modify attributes and change passwords.

• SiteMinder super user password—The default SiteMinder super user account (siteminder) has maximum permissions. Determine the password for the default super user account.

  Limits:

  • The password must contain at least six (6) characters and cannot exceed 24 characters.
  • The password cannot include an ampersand (&) or an asterisk (*).
  • If the password contains a space, enclose the passphrase with quotation marks.

  Note: We recommend that you do not use the default super user for day-to-day operations. Rather, use the default super user to access the FSS Administrative UI and Administrative UI for the first–time and then create an administrator with super user permissions.