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Policy Server Configuration Files

This section contains the following topics:

CA Compliance Security Manager Configuration File

Connection API Configuration File

OneView Monitor Configuration File

SiteMinder Configuration File

SNMP Configuration File

SNMP Event Trapping Configuration File

Policy Server Registry Keys

CA Compliance Security Manager Configuration File

SiteMinder has a command line tool, smcompliance, which creates compliance reports that you manually import into CA Security Compliance Manager.The CA Compliance Security Manager configuration file (compliance.conf) lets you modify the contents of the compliance reports.

Location: siteminder_home\compliance\config

siteminder_home

Specifies the Policy Server installation path.

More information:

Add a New Compliance Report

Change the Content of the Existing Compliance Reports

Connection API Configuration File

The Connection API file (conapi.conf) is used to configure services through the Connection API. These services include the OneView Monitor.

Location: siteminder_home\config

siteminder_home

Specifies the Policy Server installation path.

More information:

Configuring Port Numbers

OneView Monitor Configuration File

The SiteMinder OneView Monitor:

• Identifies performance bottlenecks and provides information about resource usage in a SiteMinder deployment.
• Displays alerts when certain events, such as component failure, occur.

The OneView Monitor configuration file (mon.conf) is used to specify:

• The frequency at which the OneView Monitor requests data from registered components.
• The frequency at which registered components send a heart beat event to the OneView Monitor.
• If the Policy Server component index is constant.

Location: siteminder_home\monitor

siteminder_home

Specifies the Policy Server installation path.

More information:

Setting The Data Refresh Rate and Heartbeat

SiteMinder Configuration File

The SiteMinder configuration file (siteminder.conf) is used to:

• Start and stop the Policy Server processes
• Configure, disable, and enable executives

One or more executive applications monitor the status of Policy Server processes and automatically restart any processes that fail.

Location: siteminder_home\config

siteminder_home

Specifies the Policy Server installation path.

More information:

Configure Windows Executives

Configure the UNIX Executive

SNMP Configuration File

SNMP–compliant network management applications can monitor many operational aspects of a SiteMinder environment. The SiteMinder SNMP module allows for the exchange of information with these applications.

The SNMP configuration file (snmp.conf) provides settings for the SiteMinder SNMP module.

Location: siteminder_home\config

siteminder_home

Specifies the Policy Server installation path.

Note: For more information about using this file, see Configure the SNMP Agent on Windows in the Policy Server Installation Guide.

More information:

Configure the SNMP Agent on Windows

SNMP Event Trapping Configuration File

The SNMP event trapping configuration file (snmptrap.conf) provides settings for the following:

• The system events that you want mapped to SNMP traps.
• The addresses of the Network Management Systems to which the traps are sent.

Location: siteminder_home\config

siteminder_home

Specifies the Policy Server installation path.

Note: For tasks that are related to this file, see How to Configure SNMP Trapping Events on Windows and How to Configure SNMP Trapping Events on UNIX in the Policy Server Installation Guide.

More information:

How to Configure SNMP Event Trapping on Windows

How to Configure SNMP Event Trapping on UNIX Systems

Configure the SiteMinder Event Manager

SiteMinder MIB

Event Data

Policy Server Registry Keys

The Policy Server registry keys are located at one of the following:

• (Windows) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Netegrity\SiteMinder\CurrentVersion\PolicyServer.
• (UNIX) The sm.registry file.

  The default location of this file is siteminder_home/registry.

  siteminder_home

  Specifies the Policy Server installation path.

Consider the following:

• Specific circumstances can require that you do one of the following:
  • Modify an existing registry key.
  • Create a registry key and assign a value.

  In these cases, the SiteMinder documentation details the required steps.

• In all other cases, we recommend that you modify Policy Server settings using the Administrative UI or the Policy Server Management Console, as detailed in the SiteMinder documentation. Do not modify Policy Server settings using the registry keys, unless instructed by SiteMinder Support or the documentation.