IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, Version 6.2.2

Customizing federation templates

The Federation First Steps tool contains federation templates which you can use to create SAML 2.0 federations. The federation templates are response files that contain macros which are expanded during runtime. You can edit the federation templates to customize some properties.

About this task

Before you use the Federation First Steps tool to create a federation, you can customize the federations templates. The following sections guide you through the process.
Parent topic: Configuring

Customizing a federation template

About this task

You can customize a federation template in two ways:
  • Modifying the federation template in the fedfirststeps directory
  • Modifying the federation template in a different directory

Modifying the federation template in the fedfirststeps directory

Procedure

  1. Go to <FIM install folder>/firststeps/fedfirststeps/templates and locate the template that you must customize.
  2. Use a text editor to edit the template that you must customize.
  3. Edit the variables that you must change. You can specify your preferred value for the company name, mapping rule, and so on.
  4. Click Save.

Modifying the federation template in a different directory

Procedure

  1. Go to <FIM install folder>/firststeps/fedfirststeps/templates and locate the template that you must customize.
  2. If you must put the templates folder in another location, copy the templates folder from <FIM install folder>/firststeps/fedfirststeps/templates. Move it in another directory, and rename it.
  3. Use a text editor application to customize the template.
  4. Edit the variables that you must change. You can specify your preferred value for the company name, mapping rule, and so on.
  5. Click Save.

Using the customized federation template

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There are two ways to use the customized federation template in the Federation First Steps tool: by modifying the fedfirststep.ini file, or by using the command-line interface. If, for example, your custom templates are in c:\custom_tfim_fed_templates\, follow these procedures:

Procedure


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