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title: About Configuration
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# About Configuration

The Configuration section covers all the pre-runtime architectural and setup tasks necessary to prepare the PingFederate server and its dependencies before it handles live traffic.

This category includes initial setup, file-based configuration, core security establishment, data source linking, and policy infrastructure creation.