SiteMinder integration prerequisites
The following prerequisites must be met to integrate IBM® Unica Marketing with Netegrity SiteMinder.
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SiteMinder must be configured to use a web agent and a policy server.
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SiteMinder must be configured to pass the login name as an HTTP variable in the URL request to the IBM® Unica Marketing application, and the IBM® Unica MarketingWeb access control header variable property must be set to the name of this variable (by default, sm_user).
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The SiteMinder policy server must be configured to use LDAP as its repository for storing group members, and user properties.
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The IBM® Unica Marketing application URLs provided by the web server hosting SiteMinder and the Java application server hosting the IBM® Unica Marketing application must refer to the same path.
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The web server hosting SiteMinder must be configured to redirect requests to the IBM® Unica Marketing application URL on the Java application server.
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All users who need to access IBM® Unica Marketing applications must be granted access in SiteMinder to the IBM® Unica Marketing web applications for HTTP GET and POST requests through SiteMinder.
See the remainder of this section for settings required to enable specific features or to support certain IBM® Unica® products.
Enabling single logouts
To enable a logout of SiteMinder when a user logs out of an IBM® Unica Marketing application, configure SiteMinder as follows.
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Log in to the Administer Policy Server area of SiteMinder and set the logoffUri property to the URL of the IBM® Unica Marketing logout page. For example:/sm_realm/unica/j_spring_security_logoutwhere sm_realm is the SiteMinder security realm.
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Unprotect the IBM® Unica Marketing logout page, to ensure that SiteMinder does not force the user to sign in again to view the logout page.
Enabling the IBM® Unica® Scheduler
If you plan to use the IBM® Unica® Scheduler, you must configure SiteMinder as follows.
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Log in to the Administer Policy Server area of SiteMinder and click Domains.
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Select the realm that applies to your IBM® Unica® installations, right-click unprotecturl, and select Properties of Realm.
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In the Resource Filter text box, enter /unica/servlet/SchedulerAPIServlet.
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Under Default Resource Protection, select Unprotected.
Configuring settings for IBM® Unica® Optimize
If you plan to schedule IBM® Unica® Optimize sessions, you must configure SiteMinder as follows.
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Log in to the Administer Policy Server area of SiteMinder and click Domains.
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Select the realm that applies to your IBM® Unica® installations, right-click unprotecturl, and select Properties of Realm.
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In the Resource Filter text box, enter /Campaign/optimize/ext_runOptimizeSession.do.
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Under Default Resource Protection, select Unprotected.
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Repeat the previous two steps, entering the following strings in the Resource Filter text box.
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/Campaign/optimize/ext_optimizeSessionProgress.do
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/Campaign/optimize/ext_doLogout.do
Configuring settings for Marketing Operations
If you plan to use Marketing Operations, you must configure SiteMinder as follows.
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Log in to the Administer Policy Server area of SiteMinder and click Domains.
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Select the realm that applies to your IBM® Unica® installations, right-click unprotecturl, and select Properties of Realm.
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In the Resource Filter text box, enter /plan/errorPage.jsp.
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Under Default Resource Protection, select Unprotected.
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Repeat the previous two steps, entering the following strings in the Resource Filter text box.
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/plan/errorPage.jsp
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/plan/alertsService
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/plan/services
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/plan/invalid_user.jsp
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/plan/js/js_messages.jsp
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/plan/js/format_symbols.jsp
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/unica/servlet/AJAXProxy
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