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Enable User Tracking

The SiteMinder Global Settings dialog box, available from the Policy Server User Interface, lets you enable and disable user tracking. If you enable user tracking, SiteMinder Agents save Global Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) in cookies. When users access a resource in a realm with an Anonymous authentication scheme for the first time, the SiteMinder Agent creates a cookie that includes the user’s GUID. Since each GUID is a unique value, a GUID in a cookie created by a SiteMinder Agent may be used to track an anonymous user and customize Web content.

Affiliate Agents require user tracking. If you are using SiteMinder for a network that includes Affiliate Agents, you must enable user tracking as described in the following procedure.

To enable user tracking

1. Log into the Policy Server User Interface.
2. From the menu bar of the SiteMinder Administration window, select Tools, Global Settings.

   The SiteMinder Global Settings dialog box opens.

3. Select the Enable User Tracking check box.
4. Click OK.

   The SiteMinder Global Settings dialog box closes. The Policy Server enables user tracking.

More information:

SiteMinder Global Settings Dialog