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Implementation Considerations

The decisions related to how you implement SiteMinder depend on:

• How you map your applications to the SiteMinder access management models
• The SiteMinder features you plan to use
• How you plan to manage SiteMinder Policy Servers and Agents

We recommend that you consider the following before you deploy and configure SiteMinder.

Policy Management Models

SiteMinder policy management models let you define access permissions for web resources and their respective user populations. A policy management model establishes the following:

• What resource is protected.
• Who can access the resource.
• What type of access user populations have.
• What happens when SiteMinder grants access to the resource.
• What happens when SiteMinder denies access to a resource.

All SiteMinder functionality is available, regardless of which model you use. The primary difference between the models is the level of SiteMinder knowledge required to configure each. The following Administrative UI objects represent the policy management models:

• Applications
• Policy domains and domain objects

Note: The following SiteMinder core objects are required to configure an application object or domain policy:

• A host configuration object
• An agent configuration object
• An agent object
• A user directory object

  Note: For more information about these objects, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.