Managing service provider settings > Federation Details

Federation Details

Use this page to view and download details about the Life Suite Authentication federation.

A federation is a circle of trust between a service provider and identity provider. In this case, between Life Suite Authentication and your IdP. Establishing a trust between Life Suite Authentication and your IdP allows users to securely authenticate against your directory service using their current network credentials.

In most cases, all that is required to join the Life Suite Authentication federation is to point to the location of our metadata URL.

The settings on this page are meant to be consumed in one of the following ways:

• Copy the metadata service address URL into the appropriate location of your Identity Provider
• Download the metadata field and upload it to the appropriate location of your Identity Provider
• Manually copy and paste the federation details to the corresponding attributes in your Identity Provider

Settings

Settings are read-only. You cannot change settings on this page.

Metadata Service Address

The URL of the Life Suite Authentication metadata file. This is part of the configuration of the federation between SilkRoad and your IdP.

The easiest and most resilient way to configure your IdP is to use the URL displayed here in the Metadata Service Address. Metadata is an XML page that contains all the necessary information about the Life Suite Authentication Service Provider that your IdP requires to establishing the federation. If your IdP automatically checks the metadata URL on a periodic basis (nightly, for example), it ensures that any changes to the Service Provider relating to the federation are updated without manual intervention.

If your IdP requires a metadata file instead of an URL, the button downloads this file.

Note: The following settings apply if you are manually configuring the IdP for the federation because it is unable to consume either a metadata URL or file.

Entity Id

The unique name/entity of SilkRoad Life Suite Login.

Note: Also referred to as audience or audience restriction by some IdPs.

Single Sign-On Binding

The binding used by Life Suite Authentication for sign-on messages.

Note: SilkRoad's binding can be different than the IdP's binding.

Single Sign-On URL

The URL an IdP routes to after authentication.

Note: Also referred to as Post Back URL, Destination URL, Recipient URL, or SAML Customer URL by some IdPs.

Single Logout Binding

The binding used by Life Suite Authentication for logout messages.

Note: SilkRoad's binding can be different than the IdP's binding.

Single Logout URL

The URL and IdP routes through in a single logout (SLO) scenario.

Buttons, links, and options

Click to download Life Suite Authentication federation metadata to an xml file.