Sun Microsystems Sun Java System 2005Q1 Portal Server 6 Planning Manual page 106

Portal Server and Access Manager on Different Nodes
Federation Management API–adds functionality based on the Liberty Alliance
Project specifications.
Figure 5-6
Figure 5-6 Portal Server and Access Manager on Different Nodes
Security
Node
(SRA)
As a result of this implementation of Portal Server and Access Manager separation,
other topology permutations are possible for portal services architecture
deployments as shown in the next three figures.
106 Portal Server 6 2005Q1 • Deployment Planning Guide
illustrates Access Manager and Portal Server residing on separate nodes.
Application
Node
Portal
Server
Node
Access
Manager
Node
SDK
Access
Manager
Node
Content
Node