Setting web access control connection properties in IBM EMM

To configure web access control integration, you set some configuration properties.

Procedure

On the Settings & Configuration page, set values of the properties as described in the following table.

See the related reference for details on how to set each property.

Table 1. Properties for configuring web access control integration
Property Value
IBM® EMM | HCL Marketing Platform | Security | Login method details Select Web access control.
IBM EMM | HCL Marketing Platform | Security | Login method details | Web access control | Username pattern A Java™ regular expression used to extract the user login from the HTTP header variable in web access control software. You must XML-escape any XML characters in the regular expression. The recommended value for SiteMinder and Tivoli® Access Manager is \w*
IBM EMM | HCL Marketing Platform | Security | Login method details | Web access control | Web access control header variable The HTTP header variable configured in the web access control software, which is submitted to the web application server. By default, SiteMinder uses sm_user, and Tivoli Access Manager uses iv-user. For Tivoli Access Manager, set this value to the user name component of the IBM Raw string, not the IBM HTTP string.
IBM EMM | General | Navigation | HCL Marketing Platform URL Set to http://sm_host:sm_port/sm_realm/unica

where

  • sm_host is the name of the machine on which SiteMinder is installed
  • sm_port is the SiteMinder port number
  • sm_realm is the SiteMinder realm