Installation guide

How to Set Up Additional Agent Components
Chapter 9: Configurations Available for All Web Agents 149
How to Set Up Additional Agent Components
The Web Agent Configuration Wizard guides you through basic Agent
configuration. However, there are other Agent components that you can
configure without the wizard.
All SiteMinder Web Agents can protect resources, act as forms credential
collectors (FCC) and/or an SSL credential collectors (SCC), and serve as a cookie
provider for single sign-on. The Web Agent can serve in one or more of these
roles simultaneously.
At installation, some of these functions, such as acting as the forms credential
collector, are set up automatically; however, other capabilities, such as the
cookie provider require additional configuration.
You can set up any of the additional components as follows:
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Configuring an Agent as a forms credential collector
The libraries and files for forms credential collection are set up automatically
during installation.
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Configuring an Agent as an SSL credential collector
You specify whether the Agent performs SSL credential collection during the
initial Agent configuration with the Configuration Wizard.
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Configuring the Agent as a cookie provider for multiple cookie domain single
sign-on
A cookie provider lets the Agent implement single sign-on in a multiple
cookie domain environment. All Web Agents can act as a cookie provider, but
all cookie providers within a domain must use the same domain name. The
cookie provider URL setting in the Agent‘s configuration dictates which Web
Agent is the cookie provider. After you determine which Agent is the cookie
provider, you configure all other Agents in the single sign-on environment to
point to the cookie provider by entering that Agent‘s URL.