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Overview

Configure Maverics to connect to an identity provider using the SAML protocol.

Configure Identity Fabric

Use a Secret Provider
Production settings ought to implement a secret management system. Maverics connects with multiple secret management systems, which keep secrets that Orchestrator instances retrieve during startup. To cite a secret from your provider, enclose the name in angle brackets. (e.g. <app client-id>)
Learn more about Secret Providers

Field Name	Description	Example
Name	A friendly name for your SAML service.	`samlClient`
Metadata URL	This is the metadata URL from the application configured in the SAML service. This setting will accept a file:/// URI if the metadata file is saved on a filesystem accessible to the Orchestrator user.	`https://saml-idp.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml`
Consumer Service (ACS) URL	The URL that the SAML service will use to POST the SAML response. The Maverics SAML ACS handler will be served on this URL, and it should not conflict with the path of any application resources. The path can be arbitrary (e.g. /maverics-saml or /saml-handler), but must match the service's configuration for the specified Entity ID.	`https://orchestrator.example.com/acs`
Logout Callback URL	The URL that the SAML server will call back once logout is successful. Ensure your SAML service's logout URL setting matches the URL value specified here.	`https://orchestrator.example.com/logout`
Identifier (Entity ID)	The unique application entity ID assigned to the application.	`MavericsOrchestrator`
Service Provider Certificate	(Optional) The path to the certificate that will be used to sign SAML authentication requests.	./my-sp-cert.pem, <sp-cert.pem>
Signing Private Key Path	(Optional) The path to the private key that will be used to sign SAML authentication requests.	./my-private-key.pem, <private-key.pem>
Name ID Format	Defines the SAML Subject NameID format specified for the app in your SAML service.	`urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:entity`
IdP Initiated Login	Accept unsolicited SAML responses from the configured IDP. This is disabled by default.
Allowed Redirect URLs	Specifies the allowed redirect URLs for IdP-initiated login.	`https://alpha-app.example.com/dashboard, https://beta-app.example.com/index.html`

JSON deployed to the orchestrator

{
  "connectors": [
    {
      "name": "samlClient",
      "type": "saml",
      "samlEntityID": "MavericsOrchestrator",
      "samlMetadataURL": "https://saml-idp.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml",
      "samlConsumerServiceURL": "https://orchestrator.example.com/acs",
      "samlLogoutCallbackURL": "https://orchestrator.example.com/logout",
      "samlNameIdFormat": "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:entity",
      "samlIDPInitiatedLogin": {
        "enabled": true,
        "allowedRedirectURLs": [
          "https://alpha-app.example.com/dashboard",
          "https://beta-app.example.com/index.html"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Identity Service Health Monitoring

Identity Service Health Monitoring is a feature used as part of Identity Continuity and is available for OIDC, SAML, and LDAP identity services. When enabled, this feature allows the orchestrator to continuously poll the identity service and trigger an alert if it can't be reached. In addition, you can create a manual failover mechanism for break-glass scenarios with the custom health check endpoint capability.

You will need to configure Identity Service Health Monitoring for each identity service used in your continuity strategy.

When this feature is enabled, the following fields can be configured:

Name	Description	Example
Polling Frequency	The interval between each health check of the identity service. Can be set in seconds, minutes, or hours.	`30s`
Timeout	The maximum wait time for a response. Can be set in seconds, minutes, or hours.	`5s`
Failover Threshold	The number of consecutive negative (down) health check results to trigger a failover.	4
Fallback Threshold	The number of consecutive positive (up) health check results to trigger a fallback.	4
Custom Health Check	Enabling this allows you to override the behavior of monitoring IDP availability. This can be used use custom signals for IDP health or for a break-glass scenario to manually trigger failover and fallback behaviors.
Custom Health Check Endpoint	The endpoint to use for the custom health check. The value must be a fully qualified URL.	`https://example.com/health`
Expected Status Codes	(Optional) The HTTP status codes that the custom health check returns to be considered healthy.	`200, 201`
Response Body Matcher	(Optional) A matcher that verifies the expected value in the response body of a health check.	`'"status": "up"'`