The most common properties are documented in the following table. For the rest of the properties, including various cookie-encoding options, see the run.properties file.

Tip:

The clustering configuration options are also maintained in the run.properties file. For more information, see Deploying cluster servers.

Property Description
pf.admin.https.port Defines the port on which the PingFederate administrative console runs. The default value is 9999.
pf.admin.baseurl Defines the URL that PingFederate's administrative node uses to populate resource references in Administrative API responses. The administrative node also uses it for the redirect URL it sends to an OpenID Provider for administrator OIDC login (for example, https://pingfederate-admin.example.com or, if the load balancer uses a custom port, https://pingfederate-admin.example.com:8443). The default value is blank.

Use pf.admin.baseurl instead of pf.admin.hostname, which has been deprecated. If run.properties defines both, PingFederate ignores pf.admin.hostname. But if run.properties defines only pf.admin.hostname, PingFederate constructs the URL the same way it does in versions of PingFederate before 10.3.
pf.console.bind.address Defines the IP address over which the PingFederate administrative console communicates. Use for deployments where multiple network interfaces are installed on the machine running PingFederate.
pf.console.title Defines the browser window or tab title for the administrative console. It makes separate instances easily identifiable.
pf.console.environment Defines the name of the PingFederate environment that will be displayed in the administrative console. It makes separate environments easily identifiable.
pf.console.show.background.images Enables or disables the background images on the dashboard of the administrative console. The images are enabled by default.
pf.console.session.timeout Defines the length of time in minutes until an inactive administrative console times out. The minimum setting is 1 minute, and maximum is 8 hours (480 minutes). Default is 30 minutes.
pf.log.eventdetail Enables or disables (the default) detailed event logging for actions performed by administrative console users.
pf.console.login.mode Indicates whether more than one administrative user may access the administrative console at one time. Supported values: Single | Multiple. The default value is Multiple.
pf.console.authentication Indicates whether administrators sign on to PingFederate using credentials managed internally by PingFederate or externally by other systems.
pf.admin.api.authentication Defines the authentication method of the PingFederate administrative API.
ldap.properties.file When LDAP administrative console authentication is enabled, indicates the name of the file containing configuration properties.
cert.properties.file When certificate-based console authentication is enabled, indicates the name of the file containing configuration properties.
radius.properties.file When RADIUS-based console authentication is enabled, indicates the name of the file containing configuration properties.
oidc.properties.file When OIDC administrative-console authentication is enabled, indicates the name of the file containing configuration properties.
pf.http.port Defines the port on which PingFederate listens for unencrypted HTTP traffic at runtime. For security reasons, this port is turned off by default.
CAUTION:

This port should remain disabled in production if your deployment configuration directly exposes the PingFederate server to the Internet.
pf.https.port Defines the port on which PingFederate listens for encrypted HTTPS (SSL/TLS) traffic. The default value is 9031.
pf.secondary.https.port Defines a secondary HTTPS port that can be used for mutual SSL/TLS (client X.509 certificate) authentication for both end users and protocol requests (SAML, WS-Trust, and OAuth). Set its value to the desired inbound listening TCP port. A value of -1 disables this feature.
Important:

If you are using client X.509 certificates for either WS-Trust STS authentication or for SAML back-channel authentication, you must use this port, or a similarly configured new listener, with either the WantClientAuth or NeedClientAuth parameter set to true in the jetty-runtime.xml file.

For more information, see the note at the end of this table.
pf.engine.bind.address Defines the IP address over which the PingFederate server communicates with partner federation gateways. Use for deployments where multiple network interfaces are installed on the machine running PingFederate.
pf.monitor.bind.address Defines the IP address over which Java Management Extensions (JMX) communicate with PingFederate. Use for deployments where multiple network interfaces are installed on the machine running PingFederate.
pf.engine.prefer_ipv4 Defines the protocol to be used by PingFederate. True, the default, enables use of IPv4 only. False enables use of both IPv4 and IPv6.
http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort Specifies the hostname, or the IP address, and the port number of the forward proxy server that HTTP traffic originating from PingFederate must go through.
https.proxyHost and https.proxyPort Specifies the hostname, or the IP address, and the port number of the forward proxy server that HTTPS traffic originating from PingFederate must go through.
http.nonProxyHosts Specifies one or more destinations where PingFederate is not required to proxy its HTTP and HTTPS traffic through the forward proxy server configured by the http[s].proxyHost and http[s].proxyPort properties. This property supports multiple values separated by the pipe character (|) and the wildcard character (*) for pattern matching. See the example below.

*.example.com|localhost
pf.runtime.context.path Allows customization of the server path for PingFederate endpoints.
Note:

If this property is changed, the path must also be added to the base URL for your PingFederate environment. Base URL is defined on System > Server > Protocol Settings > Federation Info .

The pf.runtime.context.path property is also compatible with virtual host names. Unlike the base URL configuration, the virtual host names configuration does not require any context path. Virtual host names are defined on System > Server > Virtual Host Names.

For example, suppose the base URL is https://www.example.com:9031 and the virtual host names are www.example.org and www.example.info. To configure the pf.runtime.context.path property value as /sso, you must update the base URL to https://www.example.com:9031/sso but leave the virtual host names as they are. Once configured, you can access the runtime server at the following endpoints:

Base URL
  • https://www.example.com:9031/sso
Virtual host names
  • https://www.example.org:9031/sso
  • https://www.example.info:9031/sso
pf.log.dir Network path to the output location of log files. The default is

<pf_install>>/pingfederate/log
pf.hsm.mode Enables or disables (the default) a FIPS-compliance Hardware Security Module (HSM).
pf.hsm.hybrid Enables or disables the HSM hybrid mode. Applicable only when the pf.hsm.mode property is configured to use an HSM.

When set to true, keys and certificates can be stored on either the HSM or the local trust store. When set to false, the default setting, keys and certificates are stored on the HSM when applicable.

The HSM hybrid mode allows an organization to move the storage of keys and certificates from the local trust store to an HSM over time without deploying a new PingFederate installation and mirroring the setup. For more information, see Transitioning to an HSM.
org.bouncycastle.fips.approved_only

When the pf.hsm.hybrid property is set to true, this property can be set to true or false. In this case, the recommended setting is false.

If pf.hsm.hybrid is set to false, this property must be set to true.

In FIPS-approved mode only, the module will provide approved algorithms only. For more information, see https://www.bouncycastle.org/fips-java/.

The default setting is true.
pf.provisioner.mode Enables or disables (the default) outbound provisioning. Also used to enable provisioning failover.
pf.heartbeat.system.monitoring Enables or disables (the default) the heartbeat endpoint, /pf/heartbeat.ping, to return detailed system monitoring information through a customizable Velocity template file . For more information, see Customizing the heartbeat message .

When set to false, the /pf/heartbeat.ping endpoint returns OK.

When set to true, the /pf/heartbeat.ping endpoint returns all available stats.
org.apache.xml.security.ignoreLineBreaks Determines whether PingFederate omits line breaks in XML digital signatures. If omitted, this setting defaults to false. Set this property to true for improved interoperability with Microsoft products.
sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout

Determines the default connect timeout for outbound java.net.URL connections in milliseconds.

The default setting is 10000.
sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout

Determines the default read timeout for outbound java.net.URL connections in milliseconds.

The default setting is 10000.
Note:

Additional configuration of the listener ports, including adding new listeners, is available through the <pf_install>/pingfederate/etc/jetty-runtime.xml file. For example, options include the WantClientAuth and NeedClientAuth flags, which indicate that a client certificate is either requested or required, respectively, for mutual SSL/TLS. For the pre-configured SSL secondary port, the WantClientAuth parameter is set to true and the NeedClientAuth parameter is set to false by default.

  1. Edit the <pf_install>/pingfederate/bin/run.properties file.

    You should consider creating a backup copy of the file.

  2. Modify the applicable properties.
  3. Restart PingFederate.
Important:

You must manually configure the runtime server-related properties on each engine node. The run.properties file is not copied from the console node to the engine nodes automatically. Also, it is not part of the Replicate Configuration process. If running, restart PingFederate.