AFM to multi Risk Authentication instances connection

Products

• CA Risk Authentication
• CA Advanced Authentication
• CA Advanced Authentication - Risk Authentication (RiskMinder / RiskFort)

Issue/Introduction

In customer environment, ArcotAFM connects to multi RA(Risk Authentication) instances by individual URLs instead of LB URLs. Here is the setting in arcotafm.properties:

RiskFortHOST.1=RAHost1

RiskFortPORT.1=7681

RiskFortHOST.2=RAHost2

RiskFortPORT.2=7681

What is the designed behavior for RA1 and RA2 in arcotafm.properties and arcotsm.properties?

Environment

Release : 9.1

Component :Risk Authentication

Resolution

The HOST.1 and Host.2 configurations in arcotafm.properties and arcotsm.properties file refers to the Servers in Failover mode, if HOST.1 is not working then it will seamlessly fall to HOST.2 and serves the transactions. It is not Load balancing and if you want to do Load Balancing then you have to put HOST.1 and HOST.2 servers behind a Load Balancer and then specify the Load Balancer details in HOST.1 section.

You can take out the UDS and SM traffic for AA2 servers and that should take care of not sending any requests to those servers. Upon service restarts the connectivity is tested for HOST.1 and HOST.2 so as an option the HOST.2 section can be commented out as well.

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