OpenSSO and tomcat

I am new to opensso(openam). I want to protect my webapplications deploy开发者_运维知识库ed in tomcat using SSO. I have basic questions to clarify.

1. What are the basic software components required to get my work done like tomcat,opensso.war etc...
2. How many policy agents i need to install and in which places.

I have gone through the document and i am not able to understand it clearly.

Thanks in advance. waiting for your replay..

James

You need to install the OpenSSO (now OpenAM) server first. This includes an installation of Tomcat, if you have not installed it yet. Here is a good guide to install OpenAM on Ubuntu. The installation is quite simple, just download the right openam.war File and copy it to the Tomcat webapps directory. The GUI Configurator will guide you through the rest of the basic configuration process.

Then you need a J2EE Policy Agent for a J2EE application, or a Web Policy Agent for a normal web server or a web app in a different language (Web agents protect resources on web and proxy servers while J2EE agents protect resources on application and portal servers, see here). ForgeRock offers a guide to install a Web Policy Agent for Apache. You will need one Web Policy Agent for each Apache instance, because they are implemented as an Apache module.

I'd suggest you try the steps at http://blogs.oracle.com/jespraha/entry/opensso_on_tomcat_5_5x and get back with any specific problem

Tomcat 5.5x & 6.0x 
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These are the steps we used to successfully install OpenSSO b3 on Tomcat 5.5x & 6.0x. It should be the same for b4. 

- extract Tomcat package 
- copy webservices-api.jar from http://download.java.net/general/opensso/extlib/latest/opensso-sun-extlib.zip to /common/endorsed (in version 6, you have to create these two directories) 
- edit /bin/catalina.sh 
add -Xms256m -Xmx1024m to the start command (find sth like "elif [ "$1" = "start" ] ; then") 
Note: there are 2 parts, one with -security switch, the second without it, edit the second one 
- restart server 
(/bin/shutdown.sh, /bin/startup.sh) 
- copy opensso.war to /webapps 
- restart server 
- run configurator (host:port/opensso) 
- restart server 
<script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=3055623; var sc_invisible=0; var sc_partition=33; var sc_security="2841646f"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script>