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CA Arcot A–OK Authentication and Risk Analysis

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

The A–OK Adapter guides users through the authentication and risk evaluation processes to apply a risk score during the authentication process.

To deploy CA Arcot A–OK authentication and risk analysis

1. Be sure that the CA Arcot A–OK service is available.
2. Install and deploy the A–OK Adapter and all related components. These components include a set of Forms Credential Collector files. These files let you use the A–OK Adapter HTML forms authentication scheme to gather user credentials.

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

3. Do the following:
   1. Configure a SiteMinder Custom authentication scheme to call the A–OK Adapter library.
   2. Determine which Web Agents are included in the CA Arcot A–OK integration and configure the respective Agent Configuration Objects (ACO) to support the integration.
   3. Add the A–OK Adapter JAR files, certificates, and properties files to the Policy Server's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) file (JVMOptions.txt).

   Note: For more information about the required custom authentication scheme, ACO settings, and edits to the Policy Server JVM file, see the CA Arcot A–OK Adapter for CA SiteMinder Installation and Configuration Guide.

The following diagram illustrates this deployment scenario: