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How to Configure a SiteMinder Agent for IIS Manually

The appcmd.exe command offers one possible way to configure a SiteMinder Agent for IIS manually. This option bypasses the Web Agent Configuration wizard, and the silent or unattended mode.

Important! CA provides this information only as an example of one possible method of configuring SiteMinder without using the programs and utilities tested and approved by CA. Microsoft provides the appcmd.exe command as part of the IIS web server. You may choose to use the following examples as a guide to configure your SiteMinder Web Agent for IIS. This command and the syntax shown are subject to change by Microsoft at any time and without notice. For more information, go to the IIS website, and search for "appcmd".

To configure a SiteMinder Agent manually, use the following multiple-step process:

1. Run the smreghost.command.
2. Unlock the appropriate modules and handlers sections of the IIS configuration file for the applications on your IIS 7.x web server:
   • Integrated Pipeline mode.
   • Classic Pipeline mode.
3. Create virtual directories.
4. Add the appropriate modules, handlers and filters for the applications on your IIS 7.x web server:
   • Integrated Pipeline mode.
   • Classic Pipeline mode.
5. Grant access to Web Agent files and folders.
6. To configure SiteMinder Web Agents on an IIS server farm manually using shared configuration, perform the previous steps on your first IIS web server. Then repeat them on each IIS web server node.

   Note: In this context, the first server refers to the IIS web server in a farm where the shared configuration information is stored. A node refers to any other IIS web servers in the farm which read the shared configuration from the first server.