Administrator Authentication

If you are using SiteMinder to protect an external administrator user store, consider the following:

During the Policy Server upgrade, the Policy Server User Interface is upgraded to the FSS Administrative UI. You can continue to use SiteMinder to protect the FSS Administrative UI. The existing external connection remains valid for the FSS Administrative UI.
By default, the Administrative UI uses the policy store as its source of administrator identities. This default configuration lets you manage the environment immediately after installing the Administrative UI. However, existing r6.x administrators stored in an external user are not available to the Administrative UI. Configure an external administrator store connection from the Administrative UI to make the r6.x administrators available.
Note: Using SiteMinder to protect the Administrative UI is not supported. The Administrative UI login screen only prompts for a user name and password. For more information about configuring an external administrator store connection, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.

You can maintain single sign–on during the migration to r12.0 SP3. Consider the following:

An r12.0 SP3 Policy Server can communicate with an r6.x policy store and an r6.x key store.
An r12.0 SP3 Policy Server can communicate with an r6.x session store.

To avoid possible policy store corruption, be sure that the server that is hosting policy store is configured to store objects in UTF-8 form.

Note: For more information about configuring your server to store objects in UTF-8 form, see your vendor–specific documentation.