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Set up the Producer Site

SiteMinder Federation Security Services enables business partners to share security information.

At the producer site, a SiteMinder federated network includes the following components:

• Policy Server—protects the entire site’s resources
• Web Server with an installed Web Agent and Web Agent Option Pack—handles the authentication of users requesting a consumer resource.

  The Web Agent Option Pack installs the Federation Web Services application, which acts as the gateway to the Policy Server for the SAML Affiliate Agent.

The following illustration shows the components for Federation Security Services.

Federation Web Services can be installed on two Agent-side Web servers.

Note: For details on setting up the producer site, see the chapter on setting up a federation security services network in the Federation Security Services Guide.