1.5 Basic Setup

Figure 1-4 illustrates the basic Access Manager Appliance installation, where Access Manager Appliance is installed outside your firewall. The figure provides an overview of the flexibility built into Access Manager Appliance. You can use it to design a deployment strategy that fits the needs of your company.

Figure 1-4 Basic Configuration

For more information, see Section 2.2.2, Installing Access Manager Appliance.

The firewall protects the LDAP server, which contains a permanent store of sensitive data. The Web servers are also installed behind the firewall for added protection. This is a tested and recommended configuration. We have also tested this configuration with an L4 switch in place of the router so that the configuration can support clusters of Access Manager Appliance.