Creating an identity provider in Oracle Eloqua

Oracle Eloqua allows you to create an identity provider using the providers SAML metadata, or you can manually provide the required information.

Note: The information below is intended for a single sign-on implementation that uses a SAML compliant identity provider. If you use Salesforce SSO, see Salesforce SSO integration.

Before you begin:

To enable single sign-on in Oracle Eloqua, you must gather information from your identity provider:

  • If supported by your identity provider, download the identity provider's SAML metadata. This metadata is an XML file containing the relevant information about the identity provider that you will need to enable single sign-on.
  • If you cannot download the SAML metadata, you must gather the following from your identity provider:
    • URL for login
    • Entity ID
    • Assertion URL
    • Authentication certificate
  • Gather the following information from the identity provider about SAML assertions. This information is not available in the SAML metadata.
    • User identity location: The location in the SAML assertion identifying the user
    • User identity mapping: The element in a SAML assertion that identifies a user

For a full list of all the identity provider settings in Oracle Eloqua, see Identity provider settings.

To configure the identity provider in Oracle Eloqua:

  1. Click Settings An image of the Settings menu icon, which is represented by a black cog..
  2. Click Single Sign-On in the Users and Security area.
  3. Choose an option:
    TaskOption
    If you downloaded the SAML metadata from your identity provider
    1. Click Upload From Metadata.
    2. Provide a descriptive name for the identity provider and upload the metadata file.
    3. After the file uploads, open the identity provider you created.
    4. Complete the user identity settings in the User Identity section. These settings identity how users are identified in SAML assertions. For more information on the settings, see Identity provider settings.
    5. Complete any additional settings in the Options section. For more information on the settings, see Identity provider settings.
    If you need to manually create the identity provider
    1.  Click Create.
    2. Complete the identity provider settings in the first section of the window.
    3. Complete the user identity settings in the User Identity section. These settings identity how users are identified in SAML assertions. For more information on the settings, see Identity provider settings.
    4. Complete any additional settings in the Options section. For more information on the settings, see Identity provider settings.
    5. Click Save.
  4. If you manually created the identity provider, upload the certificate provided by our identity provider. This is the certificate used by your identity provider to sign SAML assertions.
    1. Click Manage Certificates.
    2. Click Upload and upload the certificate.
    3. Select the identity provider you created earlier from the Usage drop-down list.

After you finish: Continue to Configuring Oracle Eloqua as a service provider.

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Identity provider settings

SSO with a SAML compliant identity provider