Federation Security Services Guide › Overview of a SiteMinder Federation Setup › Set Up Asserting Party Components › Allow Access to Federation Web Services (asserting party)

Allow Access to Federation Web Services (asserting party)

When you install the Policy Server, SiteMinder creates policies for the Federation Web Services (FWS) application. The FWS application is installed with the Web Agent Option Pack. For a few federation features, the relying party needs permission to access the protected FWS service. Adding a relying partner to a policy is a task you do only at the asserting party.

For example, for HTTP-Artifact binding for single sign-on, a policy protects the service from which SiteMinder retrieves an assertion. For SiteMinder to retrieve the assertion for a specific relying partner, that partner must be added as a user to the policy that protects the service.

Grant access to specific FWS policies that apply to features configured for your federation partnership.