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Test SAML 2.0 Single Sign-on

To test single sign-on in a SOA Security Manager-to-SOA Security Manager network, use the web pages included with the sample application. You must have previously run the sample application script to access the web pages. If you do not run the sample application, use your own web pages to test single sign-on.

The sample application web pages are located in the following two folders.

policy_server_home/samples/federation/content/idpsample

policy_server_home/samples/federation/content/spsample

policy_server_home

Specifies the installed location of the SOA Security Manager Policy Server.

Important! If you have run the sample application, the idpsample and spsample folders are automatically copied into the document root directory of your web server.

If you use your own HTML page to test SP-initiated single sign-on, the HTML page must contain a hard-coded link to the AuthnRequest service. For this deployment, the sample link for POST binding is:

http://www.sp.demo:81/affwebservices/public/saml2authnrequest?ProviderID=idp.demo

The AuthnRequest Service redirects the user to the Identity Provider specified in the link to retrieve the authentication context of the user. After the Identity Provider authenticates the user and establishes a session, it directs the user back to the target resource at the Service Provider.

Note: The ProviderID in the Authnrequest link must match the IdP ID field value specified by the SAML authentication scheme at the SP. The IdP ID field is located on the Scheme Setup tab of the Authentication Scheme Properties dialog.

After you run the sample application, test single sign-on.

To test federated single sign-on

1. Open up a browser.
2. Enter the URL for the web page that has links to trigger single sign-on.
   • For IdP-initiated single sign-on, access the index.jsp page at:

     http://www.idp.demo:server_port/idpsample/index.jsp
     

   • For SP-initiated single sign-on, access the index.jsp page at:

     http://www.sp.demo:server_port/spsample/index.jsp
     

   The following figure is the IdP.demo home page:

   

   The following illustration is the SP.demo home page:

   

3. Click on the SAML2 POST profile link.

   The following login challenge appears:

   

4. Using the login of an existing user in your user store, enter the user credentials. For example, if user1 is a user in the user store, enter the credentials for this user.

   If single sign-on is successful, the following welcome page appears:

   

5. After you test single sign-on, you can Add Functionality to the Federation Deployment.