Federation

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 federation.

  • 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.