Federation Manager Guide › Federation Partnerships › Partnership Identification

Partnership Identification

After you have selected the partnership type, you specify the partnership name and identify the local and remote entities.

Note: You can click Help for a description of fields, controls, and their respective requirements.

To identify the partnership and its participating entities

1. Type the name of the partnership. You can use alphanumeric characters, underscores, hyphens, and periods in the name. Spaces are not allowed.
2. (Optional) Type a description.
3. Select a local entity from the local list if you have already configured an entity. If not, click Create Local Entity.
4. Select the remote entity from the remote list if you have already configured an entity. If not, click Create Remote Entity.

   Note: This step can be deferred if you are planning to create the remote entity by importing metadata at a later time.

   (Optional) Enter the Skew Time in seconds.

   The skew time is the difference between the system time on the local system and the system time on the remote system caused by the inaccuracy of system clocks. You determine this number by subtracting the number of seconds from the current time to account for the difference in the system clock times for the local and the remote entities.

   Federation Manager uses the skew time and the SSO validity duration to determine how long an assertion is valid.

5. Select one or more user directories from the Available Directories list and move them to the Selected Directories list.

   If you configure only one user directory, that directory is automatically placed in the Selected Directories list.

6. Click Next to move to the next step.
   • If the local entity is the asserting party (Producer or IdP), the next step is defining Federation Users.
   • If the local entity is the relying party (Consumer or SP), the next step is to configure User Identification.

Note: If you are are editing a partnership, you can click Get Updates next to this field to update the entity information. The latest information from the entity configuration is propagated to the partnership. However, if you edit the entity information directly from the partnership, the changes do not get propagated back to the individual entity configuration. More detailed information about modifying entities can be found in Editing Entities from a Partnership.