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Soffid 4 reference guide

Soffid 4 reference guide

🔎 Overview

Introduction The Soffid 4 reference guide wants to present all the functionality contained in ve...

Identity self service

Identity self service

Resources

Resources

Users

Description The user is the core object of the system. In Soffid, a user means an identity (usua...

Groups

Description Groups are a convenient way to apply policies to a collection of users. Groups allow...

Accounts

Description An account is the way an user is presented on a target system.  There can be user ac...

Information systems

Description Information systems are the systems that Soffid will protect granting and revoking r...

Roles

Description Soffid allows you to create roles to specify permissions that can be assigned to a u...

Role assignment rules

Description Soffid console provides an option that allows you to customize policies to assign or...

Segregation of Duties

Description The segregation of duties (SoD) is a fundamental element of internal controls, defin...

Networks

Description Operators can define the subnets that compose the internal network, in order to mana...

Hosts

Description The host screen lets the administrator manage a static IP address assigned to any ho...

Detected browsers

Description The Browsers Detected screen allows the administrator to view the browsers and versi...

Printers

Description Soffid lets administrator users manage system printers. A printer must always be att...

Mail Domains

Description The mail domains identify each single mail domain that is going to be managed and us...

Mail Lists

Description The mail lists identify addresses that are going to be delivered to one or more user...

Application access tree

Description The entry points could be to connect to information systems defined on Soffid, or to...

Password vault

Description Soffid provides a protected storage, to save and manage accounts for multiple applic...

Custom objects

Description The custom objects are the objects created by the administrator to extend the Soffid...

Tools

Tools

Configuration > Global Settings

Configuration > Global Settings

Configuration > Integration engine

Configuration > Integration engine

Configuration > Workflow settings

Configuration > Workflow settings

Configuration > Security settings

Configuration > Security settings

Configuration

Configuration

Configuration > Web SSO (addon federation)

Configuration > Web SSO (addon federation)

Monitoring and reporting

Monitoring and reporting

Sync server monitoring

Description Soffid provides a monitoring functionality to consult all the information of the dif...

Scheduled tasks

Description Scheduled tasks display all the automatic tasks defined on Soffid, the scheduling of...

Scheduled jobs

Description Schedule jobs display all the asynchronous tasks generated for the workflows engine....

Audit

Description The audit trail page allows you to query for audit records for the different compone...

Access logs

Description The access log page allows querying all the information about the opened sessions.  ...

Sessions

Description The sessions page displays the current open sessions made with the Console, ESSO, WS...

Privileged accounts dashboard

Description Soffid provides a monitoring functionality to consult all the information about the ...

Search in PAM recordings

Description Soffid provides the functionality that allows searching for information about the PA...

Console log

Description The Console log screen displays an extract of the console logs for the current day. ...

Issues

Definition The Issues screen provides a tool to manage all issues and allows you to perform the ...

Reports (addon-reports)

Description The Reports page allows you to run the reports defined in the system. Reports can be...

Configure dashboards > Dashboard editor (addon-reports)

Description On this dashboard editor screen, you can create dashboards for different users/roles...

Configure dashboards > Chart editor (addon-reports)

Description On this Chart editor screen, you can create charts from the datasets created on the ...

Configure dashboards > Dataset editor (addon-reports)

Description The datasets used to generate the charts, which in turn generate the dashboards, wil...

Dashboards (addon-reports)

Description The Dashboards screen displays as many options as there are dashboards created. When...

Further information

Further information

UI common actions

UI common actions

Textual index

Textual index

Soffid 4 new releases

New features

2026-05-08 New feature: set password when enabling an account

The new feature Now, when an account is disabled, its password is deleted. Afterwards, if the us...

2026-05-19 New feature: filter holder groups at the IdP login

The new feature From now on, the service providers who have selected the “Ask for group membersh...

2026-05-21 New feature: CSV connector in Soffid 4

The new feature The first version of the "CSV connector" has been released in Soffid 4. This con...

2026-05-31 New feature: new authorization for the SCIM webservice

The new feature From now on, all users used to access the SCIM webservice will require the new "...

2026-05-31 New feature: hidden stack tracers

The new feature Users who do not have the SOFFID_ADMIN role will no longer see the details of er...

2026-06-02 New feature: syslog with new protocols

The new feature Until now, when we enabled the sending of logs via syslog to a SIEM tool, the on...

2026-07-08 New feature: geolocation service available by default

The new feature From now on, the geolocation service and the use of AI service will be enabled b...

2026-07-08 New feature: new property removeDisabledObjects

The new feature A new generic property “removeDisabledObjects” has been created which can be use...

2026-06-13 New feature: device posture

The new feature The new "Device posture" feature allows Soffid administrators to decide whether ...

2026-06-13 New feature: select images for Soffid Authenticator

The new feature The Soffid Authenticator app now has four different sets of images, and you can ...

2026-07-20 New feature: configure maximum openid logins

The new feature A new feature has been introduced in the Soffid Identity Provider that limits th...