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- How to set up trust between identity authentication and SAP Cloud Platform
- How to assign members different roles
- How to upload metadata
Set up trust between identity authentication and SAP Cloud Platform subaccount
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Set up trust between identity authentication and SAP Cloud Platform subaccount
By Merve Yalcin
Set up trust between identity authentication and SAP Cloud Platform will be explained by using SAML 2.0 Configuration.
Details
Step 1: Enter SAP Cloud Platform subaccount
Enter the SAP Cloud Platform subaccount as an administrator and expand the Security section.
Step 2: Edit local service provider
Switch to your trust settings and create your local service provider by editing the not yet existing one.
Step 3: Add provider data
Click Generate Key Pair and add following information to your local provider:
| Configuration Type | Custom |
| Local Provider Name | <platform region s URL>/<subaccount name> |
| Principal Propagation | Bonusplan |
| Force Authentication | Bonusplan (info) |
Save your changes.
Step 4: Open identity authentication console
Open the SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Administration Console with:https://<tenant ID>.subaccounts.ondemand.com/admin
You can also get the URL from your identity authentication tenant registration e-mail.
Step 5: Add subaccount as application
Choose Applications & Resources and go to Applications. Click + Add on the left hand panel to enter the name of your SAP Cloud Platform subaccount. Save your changes.
Step 6: Configure application's SAML 2.0 trust with subaccount
Click on the newly created application on the left side and then on Trust. Configure the SAML 2.0 trust with SAP Cloud Platform subaccount as a service provider.
Step 7: Get metadata of subaccount
Switch again to your SAP Cloud Platform subaccount and open trust settings to download the metadata by clicking Get Metadata. The local provider name will be important in further steps.
Step 8: Upload subaccount's metadata as SAML 2.0 trust
Go back to your SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Administration Console and choose SAML 2.0 Configuration. Upload the metadata XML file of your SAP Cloud Platform subaccount. On service provider metadata upload, the fields are populated with the parsed data from the XML file. Save the configuration settings.
Step 9: Select name ID attribute
Select Name ID Attribute.
Step 10: Set application's name ID attribute
Choose Login Name and save your changes.
Step 11: Set application's identity provider
Switch to Identity Provider and select it.
Step 12: Set identity provider
Select sapdev as identity provider and click Save.
Step 13: Save metadata of identity authentication tenant
Save metadata of your identity authentication tenant on your local file system as an XML file. You can find the tenant at:
https://<tenant ID>.subaccounts.ondemand.com/saml2/metadata
Step 14: Add subaccount's trusted identity provider
Switch back to your SAP Cloud Platform cockpit and go to your trust settings.
Choose Application Identity Provider to add a trusted identity provider.
Step 15: Upload identity tenant's metadata
Upload identity authentication metadata XML file of your identity authentication tenant (Step 13) in the metadata file field. Save your changes.
Updated 01/30/2018
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Time to Complete
25 Min.
Beginner
Prerequisites
Maintain platform subaccounts and SAP Web IDE permissions as tutorial is a prerequisite .