How to specify more than one policy server to the "Policy Server" field in the  TIBCO ActiveMatrix Administrator -> Shared Objects > Resource Templates > SiteMinder Authentication resource template ?

SiteMinder failover configuration

OS: All Supported Operating Systems

In a SiteMinder high availability environment there might be multiple policy servers to provide balancing and fail-over to handle authentication.

There are two ways you can go about configuring SiteMinder authentication in AMX BPM :-

1> Use SmHost.conf that has already been generated elsewhere

2> Specify the various properties in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Administrator  -> Shared Objects > Resource Templates > SiteMinder Authentication and have ActiveMatrix Administrator generate the conf file.

Please see the documentation for more details.

Using option 2> there is a limitation of AMX, it does not support the ability to provide a list of policy servers in its configuration. There is no way to specify multiple policy servers to the "Policy Server" field. The customers would have to configure ActiveMatrix Administrator to point to a SmHost.conf file instead of in-lining the configuration in the shared resource configuration.

This is how it looks like in an SmHost.conf file with multiple policy servers. Please refer to CA Documentation for more details.

Example (Syntax for multiple entries, place each Policy Server on a separate line):
policyserver="123.122.1.1, 44441,44442,44443"
policyserver="111.222.2.2, 44441,44442,44443"
policyserver="321.123.1.1, 44441,44442,44443"
 

Documentation : https://docs.tibco.com/pub/amx-bpm/4.0.0/doc/html/bpmhelp/AdminReports/GUID-469CD93C-3C3D-4D62-A5B2-C63A5AACB2B8.html
CA Documentation : https://support.ca.com/cadocs/0/CA%20SOA%20Security%20Manager%20r12%201%20CR1-ENU/Bookshelf_Files/HTML/index.htm?toc.htm?634125.html