Federation Endpoint

The management of federation endpoint (FEP) configuration settings distinguishes between the following recognized federation protocols:

  • WS-Federation 1.2 with Passive Requestor Profile for Web-based federations and WS-Trust 1.3 STS for Web services-based federations.

  • SAML 2.0 and 1.x for Web-based federations.

  • OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect, UMA and PKCE extensions for Web-based federations.

The Federation selection in DirX Access Manager’s main navigation bar allows you to configure settings specific to these types of FEP. This selection presents a section with a WS-Federation page for configuring WS-Federation FEPs, a section with SAML pages for configuring SAML FEPs and OAuth pages for configuring OAuth FEPs. These pages contain fields and controls for settings that are common to all FEP types and common only to WS-Federation and SAML FEP types. The next sections describe these items in detail. The sections after these common sections are specific to each type.