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How to Set Up Additional Agent Components

The Web Agent Configuration Wizard guides you through basic Agent configuration. However, there are other Agent components that you can configure without the wizard.

All SiteMinder Web Agents can protect resources, act as forms credential collectors (FCC) and/or an SSL credential collectors (SCC), and serve as a cookie provider for single sign-on. The Web Agent can serve in one or more of these roles simultaneously.

At installation, some of these functions, such as acting as the forms credential collector, are set up automatically; however, other capabilities, such as the cookie provider require additional configuration.

You can set up any of the additional components as follows:

• Configuring an Agent as a forms credential collector

  The libraries and files for forms credential collection are set up automatically during installation.

• Configuring an Agent as an SSL credential collector

  You specify whether the Agent performs SSL credential collection during the initial Agent configuration with the Configuration Wizard.

• Configuring the Agent as a cookie provider for multiple cookie domain single sign-on

  A cookie provider lets the Agent implement single sign-on in a multiple cookie domain environment. All Web Agents can act as a cookie provider, but all cookie providers within a domain must use the same domain name. The cookie provider URL setting in the Agent's configuration dictates which Web Agent is the cookie provider. After you determine which Agent is the cookie provider, you configure all other Agents in the single sign-on environment to point to the cookie provider by entering that Agent's URL.