SiteMinder integration prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be met to integrate HCL® Marketing Software with Netegrity SiteMinder.

  • SiteMinder must be configured to use a web agent and a policy server.
  • SiteMinder must be configured to pass the login name as an HTTP variable in the URL request to the HCL Marketing Software application.
  • The HCL Marketing Software property Web access control header variable must be set to the name of the variable that SiteMinder uses for login names.

    The default name for the SiteMinder login name variable is sm_user.

  • The SiteMinder policy server must be configured to use LDAP as its repository for storing group members and user properties.
  • The HCL Marketing Software application URLs provided by the web server hosting SiteMinder and the Java™ application server hosting the HCL Marketing Software application must refer to the same path.
  • The web server hosting SiteMinder must be configured to redirect requests to the HCL Marketing Software application URL on the Java application server.
  • All users who need to access HCL Marketing Software applications must be granted access in SiteMinder to the HCL Marketing Software web applications for HTTP GET and POST requests through SiteMinder.

See the remainder of this section for settings required to enable specific features or to support certain HCL Marketing Software products.