Failover authentication configurationEdit online This section contains the following topics. See also Failover authentication concepts. Configuring failover authenticationYou can configure WebSEAL for failover authentication.Protocol for failover cookiesGenerating a key pair to encrypt and decrypt cookie dataSpecifying the failover cookie lifetimeSpecifying UTF-8 encoding on cookie stringsAdding the authentication strength levelReissue of missing failover cookiesAddition of session lifetime timestampAdding the session activity timestampAddition of an interval for updating the activity timestampAddition of extended attributesAttributes for extractionEnabling domain-wide failover cookiesEnabling compatibility for failover cookiesSecurity Access Manager, version 8.0, changed the default cipher that WebSEAL uses to encode failover cookies. Failover cookies that are generated with this default cipher are not compatible with failover cookies that are generated by earlier versions of WebSEAL.Validation of a lifetime timestampValidation of an activity timestampParent topic: Failover solutionsRelated conceptsFailover authentication conceptsFailover for non-sticky failover environmentsChange password operation in a failover environment