PingAccess

Use the PingAccess QuickStart utility

This section explains how to protect a web-based application using PingAccess as the access manager, PingFederate as the token provider, and the PingAccess QuickStart utility to enable the connection and provide sample applications.

The QuickStart utility is designed to support a sample environment and aid in your understanding of how PingAccess and PingFederate work together to protect applications. You can perform the example configuration to achieve a working result and become familiar with this solution, or you can substitute your own data.

The QuickStart utility creates a basic configuration featuring:

  • A PingFederate HTML Form Adapter with an instance of a simple password credential validator

  • The PingFederate Access Token Manager (ATM) using the internally managed reference token data model

The QuickStart utility does not retain information about the PingAccess and PingFederate configuration. If you restart the utility, you must repeat the configuration steps before using the sample applications.

This document does not detail the usage of identity mappings or authentication requirements that are common components of a typical configuration. Because these components are simple to configure and beyond the scope of this document, you can read more about them and other features in the PingAccess User Interface Reference Guide.

This document does not discuss how to manually configure PingAccess and PingFederate to work together, since the QuickStart application automates this process. See Configure PingFederate as the token provider for PingAccess for the manual steps.

The following topics are covered in this section: