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CA Arcot Authentication and Risk Analysis

The simplest deployment includes integrating the Adapter and all related components with SiteMinder.

The Adapter guides users through the authentication (CA Arcot WebFort) and risk evaluation (CA Arcot RiskFort) processes to apply a risk score during authentication.

To deploy Arcot authentication and risk analysis

1. Be sure that CA Arcot RiskFort and CA Arcot WebFort are installed and configured.

   Note: For more information, see the respective CA Arcot installation and deployment guide.

2. Install and deploy the CA Arcot Adapter and all related components. These components include a set of Forms Credential Collector files. These files let you use the Adapter HTML forms authentication scheme to gather user credentials.

   Note: For more information about installing and configuring the Adapter and all related components, see the CA Arcot Adapter for CA SiteMinder Installation and Configuration Guide.

3. Do the following:
   1. Configure a SiteMinder Custom authentication scheme to call the Adapter library.
   2. Determine which Web Agents are included in the CA Arcot integration and configure the respective Agent Configuration Objects (ACO) to support the integration.

   Note: For more information about the required custom authentication scheme and ACO settings, see the CA Arcot Adapter for CA SiteMinder Installation and Configuration Guide. For more information about configuring an authentication scheme and ACO parameters, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.

The following diagram illustrates this deployment scenario:

More information:

Locate the CA Arcot Documentation

Locate the Bookshelf

SiteMinder Authentication and CA Arcot Risk Analysis

You can configure the Adapter for risk evaluation only by integrating a SiteMinder authentication scheme. A SiteMinder authentication scheme that is part of the integration is known as backing authentication.

If you use a SiteMinder authentication scheme as backing authentication, the Shim acts as an interface between SiteMinder and the SiteMinder authentication scheme.

Note: For more information about backing authentication, see the CA Arcot Adapter for CA SiteMinder Installation and Configuration Guide. Not all SiteMinder authentication schemes are supported for backing authentication. For more information, see the r12.0 SP3 SiteMinder Platform Support Matrix.

Follow these steps:

1. Complete the steps listed in CA Arcot Authentication and Risk Analysis.

   Important! The integration requires that a SiteMinder Custom authentication scheme is configured. The SiteMinder Custom authentication scheme calls the required Adapter library. This library is required even if you are deploying backing authentication.

2. Be sure that you configure the SiteMinder Custom authentication scheme with a valid CA Arcot parameter. This parameter must represent a user flow that supports the SiteMinder authentication scheme that is functioning as backing authentication. You enter this value in in the Parameter field.

   Note: For more information about user flows and the corresponding parameter values, see the CA Arcot Adapter for CA SiteMinder Installation and Configuration Guide. For more information about configuring a SiteMinder Custom authentication scheme, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.

3. Configure the Shim to use the SiteMinder authentication scheme as a backing authentication.

   Note: For more information about configuring a backing authentication scheme, see the CA Arcot Adapter for CA SiteMinder Installation and Configuration Guide.

The following diagram illustrates this deployment scenario:

More information:

Locate the CA Arcot Documentation

Locate the Bookshelf