SAML Identity Provider general configuration

SAML Identity Provider general configuration

This webapplication will be made up of a webapplication link and a public webapplication object. It will not have a host object like many other webapps. 

In this example we will use the following settings: 
Application type : public 
Context path (alias) : /mysamlapp 
Assigned Relays : <appropriate relays to run this application> 
Startup url : /swPublicSSO/SAML/mysamlapp 

Then on the Authentication Tab for the webapplication object we have: 
Type : SAML 
Identity : Identity Provider 
Assertion Consumer (This is provided by your vendor) : https://url-from.3rdpartyexample-cloud.com/login.saml 
Target Resource (This is provided by your vendor) : https://somename.3rdpartyexample-cloud.com/sso.do 
Issuer (Vendor may tell you to put a specific string here) : somename 
Audience ( Vendor will provide this url) : https://url-from.3rdpartyexample-cloud.com/ 
PFX Certificate : Use the wizard to generate the certificate 
Private Key : Filled in when you do the wizard for the PFX Certificate 
Certificate : Click the wizard and fill in the information to generate the certificate. 

Then on the Attributes Tab. 
This is for sending data to the 3rd party server to provision users. 
Provision : Enabled 
Provision Type : SAML 
Provisioning Parameters (these would be what the 3rd party service requires): 
• email = @@attr:mail@@ 
• externalID=@@lower(typelessuserid)@@ 
• firstName=@@usergivenname@@ 
• lastName=@@usersurname@@ 


When the user clicks on the link for this webapplication, webNetwork would contact the service using the urls provided in the webapplication and would send the data on the provisioning tab and the vendor would exchange some certificate information and would authorize the webNetwork user to talk to the hosted service. 


As of 6.5, the options from the Authentication Tab and Attributes Tab now reside in a new SAML configuration editor.

See the LUW 6.5 SAML Guide for more information.