PingFederate supports PingDirectory, Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle Unified Directory, and Oracle Directory Server as source user repositories for outbound provisioning. However, you can use other types of LDAP servers, either identifying them as Generic or registering them with PingFederate. (For more information, see the sample.template.txt in the <pf_install>/pingfederate/server/default/conf/template/ldap-templates directory.)

Information from your user-datastore is used to supply mapped values for each user attribute required by the SP.

Source
  1. On the Source screen, choose the LDAP store to use for this channel.
    If the datastore you want is not shown in the list, PingFederate is not yet configured to access the store; click Manage Data Stores to create a connection to the datastore.
  2. Click Next.