Federation Security Services Guide › Configure SiteMinder as a SAML 1.x Producer › Prerequisites for a SiteMinder Asserting Party

Prerequisites for a SiteMinder Asserting Party

For SiteMinder to serve as the asserting party, the following conditions must be met:

• Install the Policy Server.
• Install one of the following:
  • The Web Agent and the Web Agent Option Pack. The Web Agent authenticates users and establishes a SiteMinder session. The Option Pack provides the Federation Web Services application.
  • The SPS federation gateway, which has an embedded Web Agent and has the Federation Web Services application deployed on the embedded Tomcat web server.
• A SAML consumer is set up within the federated network.

  The assertions generated by the producer are sent to the consumer. An application at the consumer receives and interprets the assertion. The SAML Affiliate Agent and a system with the SiteMinder Web Agent Option Pack can act as SAML consumers.