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Deployment options
Enterprise Authentication offers several options to meet your deployment needs.
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Types of installations
Web-based interface
Tenancy and administrator roles
Types of installations
Enterprise Authentication offers two installation options.
Required installation
Install Enterprise Authentication on your dedicated standalone server to use as a secure central point
for managing the software, storing data, and hosting the web-based interfaces.
Use the Enterprise Authentication server to perform these tasks:
• Install the Enterprise Authentication software
• Facilitate deployment
• Manage the database
• Manage configuration and user data
Cluster installation
When you install Enterprise Authentication on several servers, you can cluster and configure the
servers to share configuration and user session data.
Clusters contain these server types:
• Master server — The first Enterprise Authentication installation you install and configure in the
cluster.
• Seed server — All subsequent server installations configured in the cluster.
Each server within a cluster shares the following Enterprise Authentication data:
• Configuration — Settings configured on the administration interface that is persistently stored in
a configuration database.
• Session — Sequences of client browser requests that are tracked when users are successfully
authenticated until they log off.
By default, Enterprise Authentication stores session data locally for 30 minutes.
Configuring the servers to share data enables:
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