Activating the Single Signon Feature

The Single Signon feature enables a user to log in to one PeopleSoft application server with a user ID and password and, after authentication, access a second PeopleSoft application server without entering a user ID or password.

This section discusses:

  • Activating the Single Signon feature for PeopleSoft HCM systems that use PeopleTools 8.4x, such as PeopleSoft HCM 8.8, 8.9, and 9.0.

  • Activating the Single Signon feature for PeopleSoft HCM 8.3.

These are the basic steps to activate the Single Signon feature if you integrate with PeopleSoft HCM 8.8, 8.9, and 9.0:

  1. Create the PeopleSoft Resource Management (subscribing) message node and the PeopleSoft HCM (publishing) message node in the HCM and Financials databases.

    Message nodes define the databases with which you integrate. You must create both message nodes—one for PeopleSoft HCM and one for PeopleSoft Resource Management—in the subscribing database (Financials) and the publishing database (HCM).

    Important! You must create the same PeopleSoft HCM and PeopleSoft Resource Management message node names in both databases. If a password is defined for the message node, then it must match the password in the corresponding database.

  2. Specify the message nodes on the Single Signon page in the Single Signon component (SINGLE_SIGNON) that you created in the previous step for use by the Single Signon feature in the HCM and Financials databases.

    Important! You must specify the same PeopleSoft HCM and PeopleSoft Resource Management message node names in both databases.

  3. Follow these steps to specify in the Financials database the location of the HCM database:

    1. Obtain the universal resource indicator (URI) of the HCM database.

    2. In the Financials database, open the HCM node definition and enter the HCM database URI in the Content URI Text field (URI_TEXT_PSC) on the Portal page of the node definition with the following format:

      http://<webservermachinename>/psc/<domain name>/

    3. Select PIA as the node type on the Node Definitions page.

      Important! In this step, you must open the node definition for the specific node named HCM to enter the HCM database URI and node type.

The steps are different if you set up the Single Signon feature with two databases and two or more web servers.

See PeopleTools : Security Administration, "Implementing Single Signon."

The steps to set up the Single Signon feature are different if you integrate with PeopleSoft HCM 8.3 and PeopleTools 8.1. For example:

  • The HCM database URI has the following format:

    http://<webservermachinename>/servlets/iclientservlet/<domain name>/

  • The node type is ICType.