On Wed 23 Mar 2016 at 10:54:18 +0000, Andy Swiffin (Staff) wrote:
>
> Our library are changing their library systems over to the "Alma Library
> Management System". This seems to be a hosted, "cloud", solution which
> they're going to use SAML authentication to against the IdP.
>
> Has anyone else had experience with this?
>
> I've just got sight of the "instructions" in:
> https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/user-management/authentication/saml
> and they seem to take the IdP metadata and slice it all into little bits and
> squirrel it away. All very messy when we come to update the certificate.
Hi Andy,
We use hosted ALMA with SAML auth. I wasn't involved in setting this up, but
the configuration on the IdP side is trivial. They are not part of the UK Fed,
which adds yet another third-party that needs to be updated should our
metadata change, but unfortunately that's the case with most of the commercial
(non-library/non-research) integrations that we do these days.
If you have any specific questions then feel free to give me a shout.
Regards,
Chris
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