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Before You Begin
Be aware of the following before installing the Policy Server:
- To install the Policy Server, you must log into a Windows account with local administrator privileges.
- (Windows 2008) If you are installing a Policy Server on a system running the Windows 2008 operating environment, update the Windows firewall settings to allow inbound connections on the following ports:
These ports are the default Policy Server accounting, authentication, and authorization ports. If you change these ports after installing the Policy Server, be sure to allow inbound connections to the respective ports.
Note: For more information, see the Microsoft documentation.
- (IBM Directory Server) If you are using IBM Directory Servers in your SiteMinder environment, edit the V3.matchingrules file by adding the following line:
MatchingRules=(2.5.13.15 NAME ‘integerOrderingMatch’ SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.27
If the V3.matchingrules file does not contain the change, the directory store is not be configured correctly and the necessary SiteMinder objects are not created
- Install the documentation.
- System Path Length—If the system path length exceeds 1024 characters, including or excluding the SiteMinder added directories, the Policy Server installation fails We recommend trimming the pre–SiteMinder system path to approximately 700 characters.
- The 6.x Policy Server does not configure Microsoft Access as the default policy store as with previous SiteMinder releases. Access is not supported as a policy store.
- Be sure that the Sun Java System or IIS web server instance is stopped to let the Policy Server installer configure the Policy Server User Interface.
- To avoid possible policy store corruption, be sure that the server on which the policy store is to reside is configured to store objects in UTF-8 form. For more information about configuring your server to store objects in UTF-8 form, see the vendor–specific documentation.
- The Policy Server and Documentation installations each modify environment variables.
More Information:
Modified Windows Environment Variables
