Identity Provider Integration III: Configure Silverback
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 |
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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 |
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Import
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With the Import from URL button you can fetch easily your SAML2 configuration from your Identity Provider via URL. |
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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. |