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title: PingCentral
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# PingCentral

PingCentral makes it possible for identity and access management (IAM) administrators to delegate common application configuration and deployment tasks to application owners, which saves time and streamlines processes.

1. Administrators set up users and define PingFederate and PingAccess development, test, and production environments.

2. Administrators create OAuth *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
   \<p>A standard framework that enables an application (OAuth client) to obtain access tokens from an OAuth authorization server for the purpose of retrieving protected resources on a resource server.\</p>
   \</div>)*, OpenID Connect (OIDC) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
   \<p>An authentication protocol built on top of OAuth that authenticates users and enables clients (relying parties) of all types to request and receive information about authenticated sessions and users. OIDC is extensible, allowing clients to use optional features such as encryption of identity data, discovery of OpenID Providers (OAuth authorization servers), and session management.\</p>
   \</div>)*, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
   \<p>A standard, XML-based, message-exchange framework enabling the secure transmittal of authentication tokens and other user attributes across domains.\</p>
   \</div>)*, and PingAccess templates based on clients, connections, and application security configurations they think are worth replicating.

3. Application owners use these templates to apply security configurations to their applications and then promote them to the appropriate development environments to test them.

Using PingCentral does not require extensive training. However, for the best possible experience, learn how the platform works before getting started.

## PingCentral for IAM Administrators

* [Release Notes](release_notes/pingcentral_relnotes_home.html)

* [Introduction to PingCentral](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_intro/pingcentral_intro.html)

* [System requirements and supported configurations](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_system_requirements/pingcentral_system_requirements.html)

* [Installing and configuring PingCentral](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_installing_configuring/pingcentral_install_config.html)

* [Managing environments](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_mng_environments/pingcentral_mng_environments.html)

* [Configuring PingFederate as a PingAccess token provider](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_pf_as_pa_token/pingcentral_configuring_pf_token_provider.html)

* [Creating and testing approval expressions](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_approval_expressions/pingcentral_create_test_expressions.html)

* [Monitoring PingCentral](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_monitoring/pingcentral_monitoring_pc.html)

* [Managing users](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_mng_users/pingcentral_mng_users.html)

* [Managing user groups](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_mng_user_groups/pingcentral_managing_groups.html)

* [Managing applications](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_mng_applications/pingcentral_manage_apps.html)

* [Manging templates](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_mng_templates/pingcentral_mng_templates.html)

* [Promotion processes](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_promotion_processes/pingcentral_promotion_processes.html)

* [Managing approvals (administrators)](pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_mng_approvals/pingcentral_manage_approvals.html)

## PingCentral for Application Owners

* [Introduction to PingCentral](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingcentral_intro/pingcentral_ao_intro.html)

* [Accessing PingCentral](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingcentral_accessing/pingcentral_accessing_pc.html)

* [Managing applications](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingcentral_managing_apps/pingcentral_managing_apps.html)

* [Viewing application information](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingcentral_viewing_apps/pingcentral_viewing_apps.html)

* [Adding applications](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingentral_adding_apps/pingcentral_adding_apps.html)

* [Updating applications](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingcentral_updating_apps/pingcentral_ao_updating_apps.html)

* [Promoting applications](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingcentral_promoting_apps/pingcentral_promoting_apps.html)

* [Reverting applications to previously promoted versions](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingdirectory_revert_apps/pingcentral_revert_ao_apps.html)

* [Managing approvals (application owners)](pingcentral_for_application_owners/pingcentral_manage_approvals/pingcentral_app_owner_manage_approvals.html)