Federation Technical Guide
The Federation Technical Guide provides a convenient way to locate the details and documentation for implementing federated identity management with InCommon.
Precursors to Technical Implementation
See How to Get Started in the InCommon Federation for an introduction to non-technical aspects of InCommon Federation participation.
Technical Implementation
Starting with InCommon
- Shibboleth IdP installation guide
- Shibboleth SP installation guide
- Shibboleth installation training
- Testing your IdP
- Naming and establishing your EntityID
- Registering your system in the federation: metadata
- Establishing your primary DNS domain
Identity Attributes
Federation Manager
Metadata
Advanced Topics
Recommended Practices
The InCommon community has developed a set of recommended practices for many aspects of federation practice. You can navigate to the Recommended Practices page for these and other topics:
- Organizational Presence
- Contacts in Metadata
- Federated Security Incident Response
- Technical Basics
- Metadata consumption (refreshed daily)
- Scope in Metadata (IdP)
- x.509 certificates in metadata
- SAML protocol endpoints
- User Interface elements in metadata (IdP and SP)
- Requested attributes in metadata
- Operational Maturity
- Maintaining supported software
- Federation user experience
- Maximizing the Federation
- Identity Provider attribute release process
- Persistent identifier support