
42 Enterprise Business Portals with IBM Tivoli Access Manager
2.6 Basic WebSEAL component interactions
As discussed in Chapter 1, “Introduction to Access Manager components” on
page 3, all Access Manager architectures share a common set of base
components. Specifically, all Access Manager deployments have a user registry
and a Policy Server. WebSEAL interacts with these components to provide its
security functions, as shown in Figure 2-4.
Figure 2-4 WebSEAL interaction with other Access Manager components
In the most basic of WebSEAL architectures, as shown in Figure 2-5 on page 43,
a user at a Web browser contacts WebSEAL with a URL request, a ...