To Configure Affiliate Attributes for an Affiliate Entity

Before performing this procedure, you must have completed the steps in To Configure an Affiliate Entity.

1. Choose Affiliate from the View menu and provide information for the Common Attributes.

   Common Attributes contain values that generally define the affiliation.

   Name

   The value of this attribute is the name of the affiliation.

   Owner

   The value of this attribute is the owner of the affiliation.

   Valid Until

   Type the expiration date for the affiliation metadata. Use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the format yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.SZ, for example, 2004-12-31T14:30:00.0Z.

   Cache Duration

   Type the maximum amount of time affiliation metadata can be cached. Use the format PnYnMnDTnHnMnS, where n is an integer. For example, P1Y2M4DT9H8M20S defines the cache duration as 1 year, 2 months, 4 days, 9 hours, 8 minutes, and 20 seconds.

   Signing Key: Key Alias

   Type the key alias that is used to sign requests and responses.

   Encryption Key: Key Alias

   Type the security certificate alias. Certificates are stored in a JKS keystore file. Each specific certificate is mapped to an alias that is used to fetch the certificate.

   Encryption Key: Key Size

   Type the length for keys used by the web service consumer when interacting with another entity.

   Encryption Key: Encryption Method

   Select the method of encryption:

   • None

   • AES

   • DESede

2. Select any of the available provider entities to assign as members of the affiliation.

   A provider can belong to one or more affiliations. However, a provider without a specified authentication domain cannot participate in Liberty-based communications. Also, be sure that the service provider entity being assigned to the affiliate entity has enabled affiliation federation.

3. Click Save to complete the configuration.

4. Click OK to complete the configuration, or choose General from the View menu to configure the General attributes.

   To define values for General attributes, see To Configure General Attributes for an Affiliate Entity.