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title: Reviewing channel settings
description: When you finish setting up a channel, you can choose to activate it immediately or activate the channel as needed.
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revdate: July 5, 2022
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# Reviewing channel settings

When you finish setting up a channel, you can choose to activate it immediately or activate the channel as needed.

## About this task

On the **Activation & Summary** tab, review, activate, deactivate, or save your channel settings.

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|   | A service provider connection must be active for any provisioning channels to be enabled. You can deactivate a channel at any time. When a channel is inactive, provisioning is suspended but single sign-on (SSO) and single logout (SLO) transactions can still occur if an associated connection is active. |

## Steps

1. Go to **Applications > Integration > SP Connections > SP Connection > Configure Channels > Channel**.

2. On the **Activation & Summary** tab, select **Active** or **Inactive** to toggle the status. Click **Save**.

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   |   | When a channel is activated, initial provisioning occurs as soon as the synchronization-frequency time period expires. See [Configuring outbound provisioning settings](help_protocolsettingstasklet_saasglobalprovisioningsettingsstate.html). The default is 60 seconds. Because initial provisioning can consume considerable processing time, depending on the amount of data that needs to be transmitted, administrators should plan accordingly. |

3. To modify channel settings, click the associated heading in the **Summary** column.

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   |   | Click **Save** to save the channel configuration. |