Comments for CoreBlox Blog http://www.coreblox.com/blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:16:27 -0600 hourly 1 Comment on Troubleshooting SiteMinder on Windows 2008 and IIS 7 by Ronald Molsan http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2009/03/troubleshooting-siteminder-on-windows-2008-and-iis-7/comment-page-1/#comment-7342 Ronald Molsan Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:16:27 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=472#comment-7342 By far the most concise and up to date information I found on this topic. Sure glad that I navigated to your page by accident. I’ll be subscribing to your feed so that I can get the latest updates. Appreciate all the information here By far the most concise and up to date information I found on this topic. Sure glad that I navigated to your page by accident. I’ll be subscribing to your feed so that I can get the latest updates. Appreciate all the information here

]]> Comment on Configuring ADAM as a SiteMinder Policy Store by kowsigi http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2009/04/configuring-adam-as-a-siteminder-policy-store/comment-page-1/#comment-7336 kowsigi Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:58:04 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=489#comment-7336 A useful one... excellent step by step explanation with screenshots.. thanks A useful one… excellent step by step explanation with screenshots..

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]]> Comment on SiteMinder Experts List by Justin Germino http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2010/02/siteminder-experts-list/comment-page-1/#comment-7165 Justin Germino Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:47:25 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=884#comment-7165 Thanks for including me on the list, I am following the list now as well. Though I don't blog about or talk about SiteMinder much on my "personal accounts" because I don't like to mix my day job with my blogging hobbies, I always help anyone and everyone out when I can when they have SiteMinder Questions. Look forward to seeing you all in CA World 2010, are you going to come to my Presentation? Thanks for including me on the list, I am following the list now as well. Though I don’t blog about or talk about SiteMinder much on my “personal accounts” because I don’t like to mix my day job with my blogging hobbies, I always help anyone and everyone out when I can when they have SiteMinder Questions. Look forward to seeing you all in CA World 2010, are you going to come to my Presentation?

]]> Comment on Quick guide to installing SiteMinder WAM R12 SP2 by Justin Germino http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2010/01/quick-guide-to-installing-siteminder-wam-r12-sp2/comment-page-1/#comment-7077 Justin Germino Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:41:24 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=807#comment-7077 Other notes about the WAM UI, don't ever use * in search queries when setting up the External Admin User store, this will cause an exception and force you to re-enter the WAM UI from scratch and you will lose all tabs and screens you had previously filled out. Other notes about the WAM UI, don’t ever use * in search queries when setting up the External Admin User store, this will cause an exception and force you to re-enter the WAM UI from scratch and you will lose all tabs and screens you had previously filled out.

]]> Comment on Quick guide to installing SiteMinder WAM R12 SP2 by Justin Germino http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2010/01/quick-guide-to-installing-siteminder-wam-r12-sp2/comment-page-1/#comment-7076 Justin Germino Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:39:46 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=807#comment-7076 JBOSS is highly unstable as an application server, the WAM UI is much more stable if you front end it with Weblogic instead. You can also proxy Weblogic or JBOSS behind IIS and SSL if you wanted an added layer as in our environment we don't allow hitting app instances directly for general administration. Not listed in CA R12 docs is to install JBOSS as a service, you can find this service.bat file in your bin directory and just do service install which will install the JBOSS server as a windows service as well so you don't have to run the shutdown and run.bat files to start and stop the JBOSS instance. Also note, if you are going to use your R12 SP2 WAM UI to talk to multiple policy servers, make sure you setup your WAM UI to the first policy server with the xpsregclient :password -adminui-setup and then configure your WAM UI for external administrative store. Then you can register additional policy servers and you set them in registration mode by doing xpsregclient :password -adminui (without the -setup). You must use a unique username each time, you can't use the same generic SM Admin you used on 1st policy server. JBOSS is highly unstable as an application server, the WAM UI is much more stable if you front end it with Weblogic instead. You can also proxy Weblogic or JBOSS behind IIS and SSL if you wanted an added layer as in our environment we don’t allow hitting app instances directly for general administration.

Not listed in CA R12 docs is to install JBOSS as a service, you can find this service.bat file in your bin directory and just do service install which will install the JBOSS server as a windows service as well so you don’t have to run the shutdown and run.bat files to start and stop the JBOSS instance.

Also note, if you are going to use your R12 SP2 WAM UI to talk to multiple policy servers, make sure you setup your WAM UI to the first policy server with the xpsregclient :password -adminui-setup and then configure your WAM UI for external administrative store. Then you can register additional policy servers and you set them in registration mode by doing xpsregclient :password -adminui (without the -setup). You must use a unique username each time, you can’t use the same generic SM Admin you used on 1st policy server.

]]> Comment on Benefits of the Hosted Model by Elmer Redican http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2006/04/benefits-of-the-hosted-model/comment-page-1/#comment-7001 Elmer Redican Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:19:52 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=31#comment-7001 I have to agree with you on this one, it is nearly always the case. I have to agree with you on this one, it is nearly always the case.

]]> Comment on Quick guide to installing SiteMinder WAM R12 SP2 by Todd http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2010/01/quick-guide-to-installing-siteminder-wam-r12-sp2/comment-page-1/#comment-6996 Todd Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:51:59 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=807#comment-6996 Thanks for the additional information. This is very useful to know. Todd Thanks for the additional information. This is very useful to know.

Todd

]]> Comment on Quick guide to installing SiteMinder WAM R12 SP2 by Solai Jayaraman http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2010/01/quick-guide-to-installing-siteminder-wam-r12-sp2/comment-page-1/#comment-6989 Solai Jayaraman Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:29:46 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=807#comment-6989 Hi, This was really helpful... One of the pre-requisite that is not mentioned anywhere in the r12 document is, the requirement of .net framework 3.5. I had a hard time to troubleshoot this issue. Finally figured it out that siteminder r12 requires .net framework to execute smobjimport. Following is the error message it was throwing without .net framework 3.5. I think CA should document this. Application popup: smobjimport.exe - Application Error : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click on OK to terminate the application. Generate Activation Context failed for C:\CA\siteminder\bin\vctoolkit.dll. Reference error message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. Hi,

This was really helpful…
One of the pre-requisite that is not mentioned anywhere in the r12 document is, the requirement of .net framework 3.5. I had a hard time to troubleshoot this issue. Finally figured it out that siteminder r12 requires .net framework to execute smobjimport.

Following is the error message it was throwing without .net framework 3.5. I think CA should document this.

Application popup: smobjimport.exe – Application Error : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click on OK to terminate the application.

Generate Activation Context failed for C:\CA\siteminder\bin\vctoolkit.dll. Reference error message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

]]> Comment on Quick guide to installing SiteMinder WAM R12 SP2 by Todd http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2010/01/quick-guide-to-installing-siteminder-wam-r12-sp2/comment-page-1/#comment-6587 Todd Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:05:00 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=807#comment-6587 Jim, Thanks for the feedback and additional information. We really appreciate it. Todd Jim,

Thanks for the feedback and additional information. We really appreciate it.

Todd

]]> Comment on Quick guide to installing SiteMinder WAM R12 SP2 by Jim Thorstad (CA) http://www.coreblox.com/blog/2010/01/quick-guide-to-installing-siteminder-wam-r12-sp2/comment-page-1/#comment-6584 Jim Thorstad (CA) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:18 +0000 http://www.coreblox.com/blog/?p=807#comment-6584 Hi Eric, This is a nice summary, thank you! Your readers should be advised that there is currently an issue with the adminui-pre-req-12.0-sp2-win32.exe installer when installing the Admin UI server to a windows drive other than the C: drive. The Windows service won't be installed automatically. You can fix this by running \bin\service.bat manually or install to the C: drive. We plan to fix this in the next cumulative maintenance planned for mid-April. There are a couple of other enhancements in the r12 SP2 Admin UI that I'd like to point out. First, you can now authenticate to the Admin UI without configuring external authentication at all (i.e., using the "SiteMinder" account). This was not previously possible. Second, configuring external administration is now much easier via a new wizard inside the Admin UI > Administration > Admin UI > Configure Administrative Authentication. Enjoy! Hi Eric,

This is a nice summary, thank you! Your readers should be advised that there is currently an issue with the adminui-pre-req-12.0-sp2-win32.exe installer when installing the Admin UI server to a windows drive other than the C: drive. The Windows service won’t be installed automatically. You can fix this by running \bin\service.bat manually or install to the C: drive. We plan to fix this in the next cumulative maintenance planned for mid-April.

There are a couple of other enhancements in the r12 SP2 Admin UI that I’d like to point out. First, you can now authenticate to the Admin UI without configuring external authentication at all (i.e., using the “SiteMinder” account). This was not previously possible. Second, configuring external administration is now much easier via a new wizard inside the Admin UI > Administration > Admin UI > Configure Administrative Authentication.

Enjoy!

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