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Important Planning Considerations Before Installing the Policy Server

Consider the following before installing the Policy Server:

• Use supported operating system and third-party software

  For a list of supported operating systems, Web Servers, databases, Web browsers, LDAP Directory Servers, and servlet engines, go to the Technical Support site and search for the SiteMinder Platform Matrix for 6.0. This matrix lists the Policy Server components supported on a Japanese operating system.

• Create supported databases

  Before creating databases for storing policy, user, or session data, make sure they are formatted with UTF-8 encoding.

• Understand which Policy Server User Interface fields that support multi-byte characters in an internationalized environment
• Understand which Policy Server components support multi-byte and ASCII characters in an internationalized environment