Federation Security Services Guide › Identify Service Providers for a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider › Configuration Checklist at the Identity Provider › Required Configuration Tasks to Identify a Service Provider

Required Configuration Tasks to Identify a Service Provider

The tasks required to identity a Service Provider are as follows:

• Create an affiliate domain.
• Add a Service Provider to the affiliate domain and:
  • Specify the name of the Service Provider.
  • Specify and protect the Authentication URL.
  • Select users from a user store for which assertions will be generated.
  • Specify the Name ID on the Name IDs tab.
  • Specify the SP ID and the IdP ID on the General tab.
  • Complete the Audience and Assertion Consumer Service fields on the SSO tab.
  • Configure a single sign-on (SSO) profile.

You can save a Service Provider entity without configuring a complete SSO profile; however, you cannot pass an assertion to the Service Provider without configuring SSO.