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What is the relation among realm, policy, rule,etc. in Siteminder?

Former Member

‎05-26-2007 3:48 PM

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In Siteminder I configured the Policy Server.

There are many terms such as realm, policy, rule,response, etc. in Siteminder.

Could anybody help to explain their relationship and functionality

in details?

I'll give points. Thanks!

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Former Member

‎05-26-2007 4:10 PM

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Hi

Process is like this

1. A user from siteminder client requests for a protected webpage.

2. Request is send to Siteminder agent. It checks the credentials of the client machine.

3. Then request is forwared to Policy server which forwards a "Login page" as specified in SiteMinder Realm (<u>a realm is an administrative object representing a protected URL root. An example is /wps/myportal. SiteMinder realms in combination with SiteMinder policies determine which users and groups are allowed to navigate to the protected URL root and its children URLs</u>.)

4. Then the user provides its own credentials in the login page, which are again sent to the policy server.

5. Now on successful login, the credentials cookies are set in the Siteminder client

6. And in the end, User is forwarded to the Protected Page.

May this one would help a little bit in clarifying the topic.

Please go thorugh this link it would help you in understading the process flow using Siteminder.

http://edg.utah.gov/edg_meeting/archives/2000/2000_siteminder/simplesite.pdf (just at introduction)

Thanks