The SAML, ID-FF, and WS-Federation protocols provide cross-domain single sign-on among multiple trusted business entities. These protocols are also used in Identity Federation. Identity Federation involves an Identity Provider, also known as an authentication provider, and a Service Provider where the user authentication session at the Identity Provider is consumed. The following are common use cases in which Oracle Access Manager is enabled for federation protocols:
Enabling Oracle Access Manager for federation protocols in a Service Provider environment
Enabling Oracle Access Manager for federation protocols in an Identity Provider environment
In this example, Oracle Access Manager is the authentication provider in an Identity Provider environment and protects some of the intranet applications. OpenSSO Enterprise in this deployment resolves the single sign-on issues among enterprise applications in partner environments while Oracle Access Manager provides authentication.
The following two figures illustrate the process flow among components in the Identity Provider environment and Service Provider environment.
In this deployment, Oracle Access Manager is installed and configured in Service Provider Environment to protect legacy applications.
The following two figures illustrate the process flow among components in the Identity Provider environment and Service Provider environment.