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Next steps

Congratulations on installing AM!

The following list shows you different tasks to consider after installing AM:

Core administrative tasks

  • Log in to the AM admin UI.

  • Learn about the administration command-line tools.

  • Learn about realms, configure them, and connect them to identity stores.

  • Configure AM’s cookie domain.

  • Learn about other types of configuration stores and decide if your environment would benefit from having dedicated application stores.

    Find more information in Setup and configuration.

Core Token Service tasks

  • Learn about the Core Token Service and decide if your environment would benefit from having dedicated CTS token stores.

    Find more information in Core Token Service (CTS).

Access Management-related tasks

  • Learn about authentication trees and nodes and configure them to let your users log in to AM.

  • Learn about sessions in AM and configure them for your environment.

    Find more information in Authentication and SSO.

Security-related tasks

  • Secure your core AM environment against different threats.

  • Configure keys and keystores used for different AM features.

  • Change the amAdmin user password.

  • Learn about delegated privileges and configure delegated realm administrators.

  • Configure audit logging services.

    Find more information in Security.

Maintenance-related tasks

  • Learn how to back up and restore your environment.

  • Learn how to monitor your AM instances.

  • Learn how to enable debug logging and how to record troubleshooting information.

  • Tune AM.

    Find more information in Maintenance.

Federation

AM offers authentication and authorization functionality which you can expand with Internet specifications and drafts, such as OAuth 2.0, and SAML 2.0.

When you’re confident about your base AM configuration, move on to more advanced features such as protecting web applications, configuring single sign-on (SSO), federating access across applications, and others.

Find more information in OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect 1.0, and SAML 2.0.