Saturday, March 5, 2011

Authentication and Authorization Process Flow

The process followed for authentication and authorization using Tivoli Access Manager for e-business is scattered throughout the product documentation.  Pulling this together and plugging the pieces into the correct location was no minor task.  IBM seems to have a preference for providing a six-step overview process.  Having it available greatly speeds resolution of issues and, much more often, validation of TAMeb before locating the issue in more likely locations such as the webserver or application server.