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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties—in particular, between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider.
ECS supports IdPs such as ADFS and others that provide a full SAML 2.0 response, enabling federated users to access ECS resources.
Figure 8. SAML based federation support
Perform the following steps to use ADFS as a SAML-compliant IdP. ECS is the service provider.
To establish a trust relationship between ECS and ADFS, an ECS metadata xml file is required.
To create the ECS metadata file, base64 encoded Java keystore, alias that is used for the key and password is required.