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Siteminder High Availability
CA Siteminder High Availability
You can setup High Availability for different CA Siteminder components as shown below
Basically you can do this for the below
- WebServer
- Policy Server
- Policy Store or User Store
1. Webserver
First is Webserver is where you install the CA Siteminder Webagent. High Availability can be achieved by setting up a Hardware or software load balancer in front of WebServers
You can configure Load balancer to handle High availablility such as ( Failover or Load balancing )
In this way when Webserver 1 goes down the Load balancer will route the traffic to Webserver 2 where web agent will intercept the request
2. Policy Server Failover
When Primary Policy Server is not responding then Webagent will failover to the next policy server in the list. This is configured in HCO “Host Configuration Object”
Check Enable Failover box
The configuration value section is where you mentions IP Address for Failover to happen
Clusters section is where you can set the Load balancing for Policy Server.
CA Siteminder r12.5 supports hardware loadbalancer from Agent to Policy Server by configuring the Virtual IP Address of Policy server. Then Hardware load balancer then dynamically distribute traffic to all policy servers associated with that Virtual IP Address
3. Policy Store & User store
You can configure High Availability for Policy Store and User Store using the following way.
Add the Primary Policy Store/User Store IP address “SPACE” Secondary and “SPACE” etc.. as show below to make it High available
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Disclaimer: Content posted here worked for me and may not guarantee success, should be used as reference only and please use it cautiously.