Registering the Service Provider with the Identity Provider

Administration

REST Administration : REST Management Agent and REST Web Application Security Configurations : Using SAML in security configurations : Registering the Service Provider with the Identity Provider

After generating the REST Web application (Service provider) metadata file (Creating and configuring the Service Provider metadata), you must register it with your identity provider (IdP). Each identity provider makes its metadata available for you to import into your service provider application.

An IdP administrator must provide you an IdP metadata file for your service provider based on the configurations that you specified in your service provider metadata file (Creating and configuring the Service Provider metadata). Therefore, no changes are required in the IdP metadata file that you receive from your IdP administrator.

For instance, if you use the Progress Identity Provider, then you must register your REST Web application metadata file with the Progress Identity Provider and import the Progress identity provider file into your REST Web application as part of SAML specification. The Identity Provider metadata file is in the application WEB-INF folder.

To register your service provider metadata file with your Identity provider:

1. Send the Service Provider metadata file to your IdP administrator.

Note: The Service Provider metadata file is required to create an IdP metadata file.

2. Acquire the Identity Provider metadata file from your IdP administrator.

3. Copy the IdP metadata file in the WEB-INF folder of your REST Web application (Service Provider) in your Web server directory.