Federated Single Sign-On Use Case in the Service Provider Environment

In this example, the company uses SiteMinder in the Service Provider environment to protect legacy applications. OpenSSO Enterprise is installed solely to invoke Federation protocols. This deployment quickly enables partners (Service Providers) to establish federation environments with their trusted Identity Providers where the authenticates must be delegated.

Figure 13–6 Deployment Architecture for Federated Single Sign-On In the Service Provider Environment

The following two figures illustrate the steps in the single sign-on flow:

Figure 13–7 Process Flow for SiteMinder Federation in the Service Provider Environment

Figure 13–8 Process Flow for SiteMinder Federation in the Service Provider Environment (continued)