Identity Provider Integration III: Configure Silverback

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Import Metadata

Open your Silverback Management Console
Login as Administrator
Navigate to Admin
Navigate to Authentication Provider
Click Import from URL
Paste your fetched Federation Metadata URL
Click OK
Click OK to save these changes
Click OK to confirm

Configure Authentication Provider

Enable Show on Login Page
Disable classic sign-in (optional)
Enable Dynamic User Creation
- Silverback will create for each login a local user account for verification reasons
- Use your Identity Provider as access control mechanism
Change the Title of your SAML2 Button, e.g MyWorkspace or Azure Active Directory
Change the Icon
Change the Color
Click Save

Try a Login

Open your Browser in Incognito Mode
Open Self Service Portal
Check the SAML2 button appearance
Click the SAML2 button
You will be redirected to your Identity Provider
Login with your credentials
When everything went right, you should be logged it into Self Service Portal
Take a device and perform an enrollment

Identities

Navigate back to your Silverback Management Console
Navigate to Users
You should see now a new Username with your Identity Provider E-Mail and Username information
- e.g. Username: tim.tober@imagoverum.com
- e.g. Email: tim.tober@imagoverum.com

SAML2 Admin Account

Navigate to Admin
Navigate to User Management
Click New System User
Enter a username
Enter as Email the E-mail used for your Idenity Provider (e.g. tim.tober@imagoverum.com)
Create any password you like
- Ensure to meet minimum requirements

Type whatever you want, the authentication will be done through the Identity Provider

Select Role
Select Language
Click Save

Try a Login

Open your Browser in Incognito Mode
Open Silverback Management Console
Click the SAML2 Button
You will be redirected to your Identity Provider
Login with your Credentials
When everything went right, you should be logged it into Silverback Management Console

Next Steps

Check the chapters below
Check our Integration Guides
Gather knowledge with Silverback Administrator Guide
Gather knowledge with Silverback Web Settings Guide

Settings Overview

Settings

Option	Description
Show on Login Page	With this checkbox a second button appears on each login page. Configuration of the button takes place in the Authentication Provider Button Settings area on this site.
Disable classic sign-in	Hide classic sign-in login page. Users will only be able to use SAML Authentication
Service Provider	Contains the unique identifier of the service provider (Silverback) and will be filled automatically when you import the Metadata URL or file.
X.509 Certificate Thumbprint	Contains the certificate thumbprint for signing the payload and the assertion. This field will be filled automatically when you import the Metadata URL or file.
Identity Provider	Contains the unique identifier of your identity provider (e.g. MyWorkspace, Azure Active Directory or Ping Identity). This field will be filled automatically when you import the Metadata URL or file.
Saml SSO Redirect URL	This is the URL where Silverback will send the SAML2 requests. This field will be filled automatically when you import the Metadata URL or file.
Saml SLO Redirect URL	This is the URL where Silverback will send the SAML2 Logout requests. This field will be filled automatically when you import the Metadata URL or file.
Dynamic User Creation	By Enabling User Creation Silverback will create for each SAML2-based login a local user account. This enables you to configure all authorized users within your Identity Provider.
Title	Defines the text content of the additional button on Administrator and Self Service Portal Login
Icon	Defines the icon which will be shown left of the Title. Supported file types are .jpg, .png and *gif
Color	Defines the background color. It enables you to easily pick a basic or configure a custom color.

Appearance

Without configured SAML2 Authentication	With configured SAML2 Authentication

Import

	With the Import from URL button you can fetch easily your SAML2 configuration from your Identity Provider via URL.
	With the Import SAML Metadata file button you will be able to upload the settings if you have a Metadata file in XML format from your Identity Provider.