Service Provider

Definition

The Service Providers are standard application servers that relays on Identity Providers to let the users log in.

Join federation

To join the federation, the service provider management team must deliver its "Metadata". The service provider Metadata describes how the service providers behaves:

• Which security algorithms does it support.
• The public portion of its signing and encrypting keys.
• The SAML protocols does it support.
• The URL of each SAML protocol endpoint.
• Contact information.

To let a service provider join your federation, simply click on the Service Providers node of the left hand side tree, click on the "Add" button and enter the required information:

1. Public ID. It must match the EntityID at service provider metadata.
2. Name. Enter a member description.
3. Metadata. Paste the metadata sent by the member administrator.

Screen overview

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Standard attributes

The standard attributes depends on the Service provider type.  Currently there are three types:

SAML

SAML API client

OpenID Connect

 

Actions

Tree view

Add service provider

Allows you to add a new Service Provider. You must click the "Add Service Provider" button, under the proper Entity Group and "Service Providers" label, then Soffid will show a new window with the data to fill in to create the new Service Provider..

Identity Provider detail

Save	Allows you to save or update the Service Provider.
Apply changes	Allows you to save or update the Service Provider and quit.
Delete	Allows you to delete the Service Provider. To delete a the Service Provider, you can click on the hamburger icon and then click the delete button (trash icon). Soffid will ask you for confirmation to perform that action, you could confirm or cancel the operation.
Undo	Allows you to quit without applying any changes.