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Access Manager setup is divided into three lifecycle stages that are easy to mix up. Understanding the difference between them makes the rest of the setup much simpler.

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Installing

Deploy Auth and Identity, configure their dependencies, and confirm the services are reachable and healthy.
  • Who does it: Platform operator
  • When: Once per environment, before any product enforces access.

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Enabling

Turn on Access Manager enforcement inside each Lerian product or plugin by setting the Auth environment variables in that product’s .env.
  • Who does it: Product operator
  • When: After installation, per product.

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Using

Perform day-to-day access operations such as requesting tokens, managing users and groups, configuring MFA, and calling protected APIs.
  • Who does it: Administrators, end users, integrations
  • When: Continuously, after the environment is up.

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In short

  • Installation puts the gate in place.
  • Enabling tells each product to check the gate.
  • Using is everything that happens at the gate from then on.
If a Lerian product is enabled before Access Manager is installed and healthy, every protected request will fail. Install first, validate, then enable.

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