Service Provider metadata - Fluid Topics - Latest

Fluid Topics Configuration and Administration Guide
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Before saving the configuration of a SAML realm, the Service provider metadata section is empty as follows:

A section titled 'Service provider metadata'. Below the title, there is a description stating 'Retrieves the service provider's metadata that are required to finalize configuration.' A text box with a blue info icon contains a message that reads: 'Metadata will be available here once the configuration is saved.'

After saving the configuration of a SAML realm, information about Fluid Topics is available in this section, as shown in the following example:

A section titled 'Service provider metadata'. Below the title, there is a description stating 'Retrieves the service provider's metadata that are required to finalize configuration.' Three buttons are present: 'XML metadata file' with a download icon, 'Certificate' with a download icon, and 'Callback URL' with a clipboard icon.

Where:

  • XML metadata file. This is an XML file containing information about Fluid Topics.

  • Certificate. This is the SAML certificate used to encode messages before sending them to the SAML provider.

  • Callback URL. This is the URL of the Fluid Topics callback page to which the SSO mechanism redirects.

  • Selecting XML metadata file or Certificate downloads the corresponding data to the user's device. Selecting Callback URL copies the URL to the user's clipboard.
  • To finalize the configuration of a SAML realm, it is necessary to share the Fluid Topics data with the SAML provider.
  • To get access to the Service provider metadata file, select the Attachments button, download the idp_metadata_example.xml file, and upload it in the Identity provider metadata section. This file is a sample. Users should replace idp_metadata_example.xml after getting the Service provider metadata file.
  • The Service provider XML metadata file contains both the certificate and the callback URL. However, some Identity providers specifically request the certificate or the callback URL individually. The Certificate and Callback URL buttons allow users to save time by not having to extract this information from the XML metadata file.