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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.

    Screen overview

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    Standard attributes

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

    SAML

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      SAML API client

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      OpenID Connect

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      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..

      List view

      Add identity provider

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