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Prerequisites for Producing SAML 1.x Assertions

To produce SAML 1.x assertions for consumers, the following conditions must be met:

• The Policy Server and Policy Server Option Pack must be installed. (The Policy Server and Policy Server Option Pack installs the Assertion Generator and SAML authentication schemes).
• The session server, a component of the Policy Server must be enabled. For SAML artifact authentication, the session server is where assertions are stored before they are forwarded to the Federation Web Services application at the consumer.
• Install one of the following options:
  • The Web Agent and the Web Agent Option Pack on a Web server. You need a Web Agent to authenticate a user and establish a SiteMinder session. You need the Option Pack to install the Federation Web Services application.
  • The SPS federation gateway, which has an embedded Web Agent and has the Federation Web Services application deployed on the embedded Tomcat web server.
• A SAML consumer must be set up within the federated network. The SAML assertions generated at the Policy Server must be forwarded to an application that can receive and interpret the assertions. The SAML Affiliate Agent and the SAML Credential Collector (installed with the Web Agent Option Pack) can both act as SAML consumers (1.0 and 1.x respectively).