Advanced Identity Cloud

PingOne Identity Match node

The PingOne Identity Match node checks that users that exist in the ForgeRock platform also exist in the PingOne platform.

Compatibility

Product Compatible?

Advanced Identity Cloud

Yes 1

PingAM (self-managed)

Yes

Ping Identity Platform (self-managed)

Yes

1 Currently available only in the rapid release channel.

Inputs

This node reads the username field from the shared node state to access the user’s identity profile.

Implement a Platform Username node before this node in the journey.

You should also verify the user’s identity by using an Identity Store Decision node.

Dependencies

This node requires a PingOne Worker Service configuration so that it can authenticate to your PingOne instance.

You can find information on the properties used by the service in PingOne Worker service.

Configuration

Property Usage

PingOne Worker Service ID

The ID of the PingOne worker service for connecting to PingOne.

Population ID

The ID of the population in PingOne to check for users or provision new ones.

If not specified, the node uses the environment’s default population ID.

AM Identity Attribute

The attribute from the user’s ForgeRock profile that the node uses to match their account in PingOne.

Default: uid

Ping Identity Attribute

The attribute from the user’s PingOne profile that the node uses to search for a matching account.

If there are multiple entries with the same attribute value in the PingOne directory server, ensure that this property is specific enough to retrieve only one entry.

Default: username

Capture failure

Capture the details in shared state if a failure occurs.

The node stores the details in a variable named pingOneIdentityMatchFailureReason.

Default: False

Example:

{
  "code": "ACCESS_TOKEN",
  "message": "Unable to get access token for PingOne Worker.",
  "exception": "",
}

Outputs

The node is non-interactive and does not send a callback to the client.

If the node was able to find a unique match in PingOne it stores the PingOne user identifier in a state variable named pingOneUserId. For example a648aaac-ch15-b357-457b-8d2e714180ff.

If you select Capture failure, the node stores any error response in a shared state variable named pingOneIdentityMatchFailureReason.

Outcomes

True

The node found a unique matching account in PingOne.

False

The node did not find a unique match in PingOne.

Example

The following example journey leverages PingOne Verify to perform user identity verification.

Example PingOne Verify journey
Figure 1. Example PingOne Verify journey

  • The user enters their credentials, which the Data Store Decision node then verifies against the identity store.

  • 1 The PingOne Identity Match node checks PingOne for a matching user.

  • 2 If a user is found, the PingOne Verify Completion Decision node checks the user’s most recent verification transaction to determine the status:

    Success

    The user successfully completed the most recent PingOne Verify transaction, so continue directly to the Success node, completing the authentication journey.

    Not Completed

    The user has an existing PingOne Verify transaction in progress, so continue the journey to resume the existing verification transaction.

    The node adds the user’s existing transaction ID to the shared node state in a variable named pingOneVerifyTransactionId.

    Not Started / Failure / Expired

    The user either does not have an existing transaction (Not Started), or did not successfully complete the most recent PingOne Verify transaction, or it expired, so continue the journey to start a new verification transaction.

  • 3 If a user is not found, the PingOne Create User node creates a new user in PingOne.

  • 4 The PingOne Verify Evaluation node starts a new PingOne Verify evaluation, or continues an existing one if pingOneVerifyTransactionId is present in the shared node state, and either completes or fails the journey based on the result.