Failover authentication concepts

WebSEAL provides an authentication method that preserves an authenticated session between a client and WebSEAL when the WebSEAL server becomes unavailable in a replicated server (fault-tolerant) environment. The method is called failover authentication.

See also Failover authentication configuration.

• The failover environment
  
• Failover cookie
  
• Failover authentication process flow
  
• Example failover configuration
  
• Addition of data to a failover cookie
  
• Extraction of data from a failover cookie
  
• Domain-wide failover authentication
  

Parent topic: Failover solutions

Related concepts

• Failover authentication configuration
• Failover for non-sticky failover environments
• Change password operation in a failover environment