SiteMinder integration prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be met to integrate IBM® EMM with Netegrity SiteMinder.

SiteMinder must be configured to use a web agent and a policy server.

SiteMinder must be configured to pass the login name as an HTTP variable in the URL request to the IBM® EMM application.

The IBM® EMM property Web access control header variable must be set to the name of the variable that SiteMinder uses for login names.

The default name for the SiteMinder login name variable is sm_user.

The SiteMinder policy server must be configured to use LDAP as its repository for storing group members and user properties.

The IBM® EMM application URLs provided by the web server hosting SiteMinder and the Java™ application server hosting the IBM® EMM application must refer to the same path.

The web server hosting SiteMinder must be configured to redirect requests to the IBM® EMM application URL on the Java™ application server.

All users who need to access IBM® EMM applications must be granted access in SiteMinder to the IBM® EMM 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® EMM products.