Administrators with the Admin role can activate and configure authentication for Attribute Query, Java Management Extensions (JMX), Connection Management, and SSO Directory Service.
If you are using the SAML 2.0 Attribute Query profile as a service provider (SP), then the requesting applications at your site must authenticate to the PingFederate Bridge server. For more information, see Attribute Query and XASP.
Authentication is required to access PingFederate Bridge runtime data using JMX (see Runtime monitoring using JMX) or to make SOAP calls to the Connection Management Service. Authentication is optional for the SSO Directory Service.
To help ensure network security, access to all of these services is deactivated when PingFederate Bridge is first installed.
To activate and configure authentication for the Connection Management Service, grant the administrators all three administrative roles: Admin, Crypto, and User Admin. For more information, see Connection Management Service.