Quick guide to installing SiteMinder WAM R12 SP2

One of the major differences between SiteMinder Web Access Manager (WAM) R12 SP2 and pre-Sp2 is in the changes made in setting up the Administration UI. The SP2 installer comes with an option to choose between a pre-configured Jboss Application Server (JBoss [Trinity] 4.2.3.GA - to serve up the Administration UI components) and your other application servers (JBOSS, WebLogic or WebSphere). In addition to that, it appears that the complex method of configuring the initial administrative user has been removed. Prior installations required you to set up a user store and configure it with the right structure in order to set up the administrator login. These improvements have made it easy to set up SiteMinder R12 SP2 relatively quickly (under 30 minutes) and significantly less complex, which to me is key for those trying to get up to speed with R12.

For those of you who are not aware, R12 allows you to install SiteMinder Administration UI ‘clients’ that can exist on remote servers separate from the Policy Server instance. We’ll be installing everything on the same machine for this tutorial.

Just keep in mind that that you might need to run a client command utility called XPSRegClient to create a trusted relationship between the Administration UI client and the Policy Server when launched for the first time. The most common error that you’ll get is the “no registration on file” message when attempting to log into the Administration UI. See the ‘tips’ section for when you need to run this utility.

The goal of this mini-tutorial is to guide you through how to set up SiteMinder in a Windows environment using ADAM as a policy store (you should be able to use any other supported policy stores) and using built-in application server that ships with the installer – all on the same machine. This is especially useful for those that do not have time to comb through the installer guide.

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