5.x to 6.x Upgrade Considerations

Be aware of the following before upgrading:

5.x Policy Servers can not communicate with 6.x policy stores.
6.x Policy Servers can use 5.x policy stores.
5.x and 6.x Policy Servers can share the same 5.x key store.
5.x Web Agents can communicate with 5.x and 6.x Policy Servers.
To avoid possible policy store corruption, ensure that the server on which the policy store will reside is configured to store objects in UTF-8 form. For more information on configuring your server to store objects in UTF-8 form, see the documentation for that server.

The following figure illustrates the general steps for upgrading a 5.x SiteMinder environment to 6.x.