Remove eTrust SiteMinder

After you have installed and used Computer Associates eTrust SiteMinder, you may find that you no longer require its use. You can then remove it from the WebSphere Portal environment and restore authentication capabilities to IBM WAS and authorization capabilities to WebSphere Portal.

To remove eTrust SiteMinder from the WebSphere Portal environment:

1. Perform the following steps if you used eTrust SiteMinder for authorization:

   1. Use either the Resource Permissions portlet or, if you are set up to execute it, xmlaccess (xmlaccess) to internalize any resources managed by eTrust SiteMinder.

   2. Edit the profile_root\PortalServer\config\config\services.properties file and change the value of com.ibm.wps.services.ac.ExternalAccessControlService to com.ibm.wps.ac.impl.ExternalAccessControlDefaultImpl.

      In a cluster environment, edit the services.properties file on all nodes.

   3. Change the enableExternalization property to false in the External Access Control Service. This will prevent the Externalize/Internalize icon from appearing in the Administration Access portlet after removing eTrust SiteMinder.

2. If you previously disabled the ability to create users through WebSphere Portal, restore it. Re-enable WebSphere Portal auto-registration. Restore the backup copy of the AppServer_root/installedApps/node_name/wps.ear/wps.war/themes/html/theme_name/ToolBarInclude.jsp file that is located in the subdirectory of each theme.

3. Optional: To remove the eTrust SiteMinder TAI module from the WAS console:

   1. In the WAS Administration Console, click Secure administration, applications, and infrastructure > Web security > Trust association > Interceptors..

   2. Select the eTrust SiteMinder TAI module and then click Delete.

   3. Click OK and then click Save.

4. To stop and restart the server1 and WebSphere_Portal servers, where server1 is the name of the WAS and WebSphere_Portal is the name of the WebSphere Portal server:

   1. Open a command prompt and change to the following directory:

      • Windows: profile_root\bin

      • UNIX: profile_root/bin

      • i5/OS: profile_root/bin

   2. Enter the following command to stop the WAS:

      • Windows: stopServer.bat server1 -username admin_userid -password admin_password

      • UNIX: ./stopServer.sh server1 -username admin_userid -password admin_password

      • i5/OS: stopServer server1 -username admin_userid -password admin_password

   3. Enter the following command to stop the WebSphere_Portal server, where WebSphere_Portal is the name of the WebSphere Portal server:

      • Windows: stopServer.bat WebSphere_Portal -username admin_userid -password admin_password

      • UNIX: ./stopServer.sh WebSphere_Portal -username admin_userid -password admin_password

      • i5/OS: stopServer WebSphere_Portal -username admin_userid -password admin_password

   4. Enter the following command to start the WAS:

      • Windows: startServer.bat server1

      • UNIX: ./startServer.sh server1

      • i5/OS: startServer server1

   5. Enter the following command to start the WebSphere_Portal server, where WebSphere_Portal is the name of the WebSphere Portal server:

      • Windows: startServer.bat WebSphere_Portal

      • UNIX: ./startServer.sh WebSphere_Portal

      • i5/OS: startServer WebSphere_Portal

5. If necessary, uninstall any Computer Associates components.

Parent topic:

Configure eTrust SiteMinder

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