Web Access Management

Web Access Management (WAM) Integration Kit

The PingFederate WAM Integration Kit allows developers to integrate their applications with a PingFederate server acting as either an Identity Provider (IdP) or a Service Provider (SP).

The WAM IdP Adapter allows an IdP enterprise to extend an existing investment by using the SAML or WS-Federation protocols to expand the reach of the WAM domain to partner applications. The WAM SP Adapter allows an SP enterprise to accept SAML or WS-Federation assertions and provide secure Internet Single sign-on (SSO) to applications protected by a supported WAM system.

This kit is designed to work with WAM products from multiple vendors. A WAM plug-in is required to connect the integration kit with each third-party system. This kit ships with WAM plug-ins compatible with Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11g R2, and with RSA Access Manager 6.1.

The current RSA plugin does not support Adaptive Authentication. It is only qualified against Authentication Manager.

A simple software development kit (SDK) is also included to create custom WAM plug-ins for other systems. If you are creating a WAM plug-in for any third-party product other than OAM and RSA Access Manager, you must complete the tasks in the WAM plug-in SDK README.txt file located in the <integration_kit_install_dir>/sdk directory.

Intended audience

This document is intended for PingFederate administrators with experience in the configuration and maintenance of the OAM Access Server or RSA Access Manager and other WAM tools, as well as developers with experience using JAVA SDKs

Before you start, you should be familiar with the following parts of the PingFederate documentation:

Please consult the WAM tool documentation if you encounter any difficulties in areas not directly associated with PingFederate or the WAM Integration Kit.

System requirements

  • PingFederate 6.x or later

  • WAM plug-in for the desired third-party system, built and deployed per the WAM plug-in SDK documentation

  • Associated vendor-supplied libraries to support the WAM plug-in you are using

  • Fully functional WAM plug-ins for OAM and RSA are included in the WAM Integration Kit package

  • Separate third-party Web Agent configured using the WAM server administrative software

    PingFederate must be running in the same domain as the third-party WAM Web Agent for the applicable WAM Server.