RSA Access Manager Components

RSA Access Manger provides a centralized authentication and authorization framework for protecting web based applications, it also includes Single Sign On capability.

Key Components

Entitlements Server

Entitlement Server is a centralized point to make any administrative changes to the data store.

Authorization Server

Authorization server is responsible for handling authentication and authorization request.

Dispatcher/Key Server

Dispatcher keeps track of the available authorization servers. It is responsible to route the request from the web agent to the next available authorization server.

Key Server

Key Server is responsible to generate and maintain Single Sign On token encryption key used to identify the user. After user authentication with RSA Access Manager, the authorization server issues a token which contains the user session information. This token is encrypted using the encryption key provided by key server.

RSA ClearTrust Data Adapter

RSA ClearTrust Data Adapter enables RSA Access Manager to communicate with the user store (LDAP/Database) to store user and policy information.

Entitlements Manager Web-based Administration Tool

Entitlement Manager Web-based Administration Tool is JSP application which can be deployed on application server and accessed using a web browser. This console provides a GUI for doing administration activities like creation, updation and deletion of users and policys.

RSA ClearTrust Web Server Agent

Web Server Agent is responsible to protecting access to the application by validating the user credential and his authorization with RSA Access Manager.

Optional Components

Instrumentation Server

Instrumentation Server which uses SNMP (simple network management protocol) enables to link RSA Access Manager to a Network Management System (NMS).This will help customer to monitor the RSA Access Manager’s performance and health at real time.

Log Server

Log Server provides advanced logging for more granular logging to meet additional auditing and compliance needs of customer.

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3 comments

swamy says June 21, 2011

hai, u r article is good,i need in detail description about all the components, can u please provide the link.

Thanks and Regards
Swamy

sidharath says July 10, 2012

Hi,

we have a requirement of integrating RSA Access Manager with OIM 11g. As of now, i am not very sure as how to start on this. If you can provide some links or guideline doc, it would help.

Thanks
Sidharath

Atul Kumar says July 10, 2012

@ sidharath,
I am assuming requirement is to integrate OIM url’s with RSA single sign-on server. Please follow RSA documentation to integrate any J2EE application with SSO (RSA server)

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