Plan

Use this information to learn about planning considerations and tasks for implementing single signon, including software and hardware prerequisites and other requirements. Also, review the single signon planning process to help you plan how best to implement single signon in your enterprise.

You must plan carefully to create a single signon environment that meets the needs of your enterprise. There are several decisions that you must make while planning out an i5/OS™ single signon environment. One such decision is whether or not you want to create policy associations. The security concerns of your enterprise factor heavily on this type of decision.

Here are some resources that you can use to complete the planning stage for your single signon environment:

After you have adequately planned for your single signon environment, you can configure your single signon environment.

Requirements for configuring a single signon environment
Use this information to verify that your server meets hardware and software prerequisites before implementing a single signon environment.
Plan network authentication service
This information explains how to plan a successful network authentication service implementation for your enterprise. Learn about important configuration requirements, such as host name resolution issues and configuration prerequisites, as well as use the planning worksheets to gather the information you need for your configuration.
Plan Enterprise Identity Mapping for i5/OS
Use this information to learn how to develop an EIM implementation plan to ensure that you configure EIM successfully.
Single signon planning worksheets
Use these worksheets to ensure that you have met all of the prerequisites for single signon and that you have considered all of the aspects of your particular system and its security requirements.

Parent topic: Single signon