What is SiteMinder Web agent?

What is SiteMinder Web agent?

A SiteMinder agent filters user requests to enforce access controls. For instance, when a user requests a protected resource, the agent prompts the user for credentials based on an authentication scheme and sends the credentials to a SiteMinder policy server. A Web agent is simply an agent that works with a Web server.

What is a Web agent?

Web agents are complex software systems that operate in the world wide web, the Internet, and related corporate, government, or military intranets. They are designed to perform a variety of tasks from caching and routing to searching, categorizing, and filtering.

Is SiteMinder a SAML?

Protecting Resources with the SiteMinder SAML 2.0 Authentication Scheme. CA SiteMinder supports SAML 2.0 federation both outbound to a Service Provider (SP) when acting as an Identity Provider (IdP) and inbound assertions from an IdP when acting as a SP.

How do I set up SiteMinder?

To configure SITEMINDER authentication service:

1. From the ACCESS CONTROL > Authentication Services page, select the SITEMINDER tab and specify values for the following: Realm Name – Enter a name for the realm to identify this server in the web interface.
2. Click Add to save your settings.

How do I use authentication with SiteMinder?

Configuring SiteMinder Single Sign-On

1. From the ACCESS CONTROL > Authentication page, identify the service to which you want to enable SiteMinder SSO.
2. Click Edit next to the service.
3. Scroll down to the SiteMinder SSO section and specify values for the following:
4. Click Save Changes to save your settings.

What is CA SiteMinder Wiki?

I’m asking this because according to Liferay Wiki “Computer Associate’s (CA) SiteMinder is a centralized web access management system that enables user authentication and single sign-on, policy-based authorization, identity federation, and auditing of access to Web applications and portals.”

Is CA Now Broadcom?

5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) (“CA”).

Did Broadcom Buy CA Technologies?

SAN JOSE, Calif.

Is SiteMinder a public company?

Sydney, Australia – SiteMinder (ASX:SDR), the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, will today commence trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the ticker code ‘SDR’ following an oversubscribed Initial Public Offering (IPO) of AU$627 million.

How do I configure a web agent in SiteMinder?

On the Select Web Server (s) screen, select the Web server that you want to configure as a Web Agent and click Next. On the Agent Configuration Object screen, enter the Agent Conf Object provided by the SiteMinder contact and click Next. (For details, see Create the Agent Conf Object)

How does SiteMinder work with EPM system?

After verifying credentials against configured user directories, the policy server passes the credentials to the web server that hosts the SiteMinder Web Agent. The web server that hosts the SiteMinder Web Agent redirects the request to the Oracle HTTP Server that front-ends EPM System.

How does the CA SiteMinder web agent verify that the URL is protected?

If the request includes the CA SiteMinder cookie, the CA SiteMinder Web Agent verifies this cookie with the CA SiteMinder Policy Server and identifies whether the URL is protected. If everything is valid, access is granted to the resources.

How does the policy server work with SiteMinder?

The web server redirects users to the policy server, which challenges users for credentials. After verifying credentials against configured user directories, the policy server passes the credentials to the web server that hosts the SiteMinder Web Agent.