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Enabling and Configuring Magentrix As An Identity Provider

 

Administrators can enable a portal to be used as an Identity Provider for Single Sign-On to external service providers. Administrators can obtain security certificates to add and configure service providers.

Requirements

To add and configure Service Providers to enable the portal as an Identity Provider, users must be assigned a security role with the following permissions:

  • Administrator System Role

To use the Identity Provider feature, SAML must be enabled.


To enable Magentrix as an Identity Provider:

  1. In the Setup Home page, click Security > Identity.
  2. Enter a Name and Unique Name
  3. Click Enable.

To add and configure Service Providers:

  1. In the Setup Home page, click Security > Identity.
  2. If you want to create a new Service Provider, click Download Certificate. You will need the security certificate to authenticate the Identity Provider to the external Service Provider. Click New External App.
    If you want to configure an existing Service Provider, click the Service Provider, then in the next screen, click Edit.
  3. Configure the following fields:
    • Name

      Enter the name of the Service Provider.

    • Unique Name

      Automatically populated from the Name field.

    • Contact Email

      Enter a contact email address.

    • Contact Phone

      Enter an optional contact phone number.

    • Description

      Enter an optional description for the Service Provider.

    • Enable SAML

      Indicates SAML is enabled.

    • Entity Id

      Enter the Entity Id provided by the Service Provider. Often referred as the Issuer.

    • ACS URL

      Enter the ACS URL by the Service Provider.

    • Subject Type

      If you would like to use the username as the subject, select Username. If you would like to use the user ID as the subject, select User ID.

    • Service Provider Certificate

      Upload the Security Certificate that provides authentication between your portal and the Service Provider. Contact your Service Provider or refer to their technical documentation in order to acquire this certificate.

    • Encrypt Assertion

      Check the checkbox to encrypt the SAML assertion. If enabled, you will need to provide the Magentrix identity provider certificate to the service provider.

    • Sign Assertion

      Check the checkbox to sign the SAML assertion.

  4. Click Submit.
On you Service Provider side, you will need to provide the Single Sign-On Service URL.
This URL may vary depending on what you configured on the SP "Service Provider Initiated Request Binding" setting. The different URLs for HTTP Post or HTTP Redirect can be found by accessing the Metadata URL available under "Discovery Endpoints".

 

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