Planning your User Management Service environment
You must decide whether you want to setup the User Management Service (UMS) in a production configuration that includes
load-balancing and fail-over facilities or in a quick start configuration that is quicker to
configure but is without load-balancing and fail-over facilities.
- Production configuration
- The production configuration provides load balancing and fail-over by letting two or more server instances collaborate. This collaboration of servers requires a shared database as well as a means of routing HTTPS network requests to any of the participating servers; normally this is achieved by adding a web server in front of the server farm or cluster.
- Quick start configuration: Single server without a database
- For UMS version 1.0.3 the quick start configuration allows you to create a simple configuration of delegated authentication (single sign-on) by editing one or more XML configuration files. This configuration is suitable for proof of concepts or demo environments. While the quick start configuration provides fully functional single-sign-on, it is not suitable for production environments because load balancing and fail-over are not included in this configuration.
- Quick start configuration: Single server with an embedded database
- From UMS version 1.1.0, the quick start configuration allows you to create a simple configuration of delegated authentication (single sign-on) with a single User Management Service server using a preconfigured Derby database on the file system. This configuration is suitable for proof of concepts or demo environments. While the quick start configuration provides fully functional single-sign-on, it is not suitable for production