Managing Identity Providers (IdPs)

Configure IdPs to secure access to My VIP, the Self Service Portal, and VIP Manager.
VIP Enterprise Gateway provides secure access for your users to the My VIP portal, the Self Service Portal, and for your administrators to VIP Manager.
  • The My VIP portal and the Self Service Portal are cloud-based web application your end users use to register, test or reset credentials, or remove credentials from their accounts (for example, if they are lost or stolen). The My VIP portal's responsive design allows for streamlined workflow on mobile phones, tablets, and computers. Use the Self Service Portal for legacy applications and user groups. Both My VIP and the Self Service Portal can run in parallel. You enable both in the VIP Enterprise Gateway Configuration Console, and provide the appropriate URL to your users, based on which you want them to use. Note that My VIP and the Self Service Portal honor the same policy controls, so you do not need to create separate policies for My VIP and the Self Service Portal.
  • VIP Manager is a cloud-based web application your administrators use to manage VIP credentials for your end users.
If you choose to use VIP Enterprise Gateway to provide secure access, an IdP service is installed as part of VIP Enterprise Gateway. Once installed and configured, end user and administrator access is secured locally and in the cloud:
  1. The enterprise user (either the end user or the VIP Manager administrator) within the enterprise firewall navigates to a specific URL on VIP Enterprise Gateway (this could be the same instance that is handling RADIUS, or a separate instance).
  2. VIP Enterprise Gateway presents a sign-in page for the web application. The user enters his or her LDAP user name and password.
  3. VIP Enterprise Gateway authenticates the user against the LDAP directory and securely redirects the user to the web application, using your VIP certificate.
    If the redirection to the web application fails, then user is redirected to the web application Sign In screen.
You configure how end users and administrators access the My VIP portal, Self Service Portal and VIP Manager, as well as how logs are rotated, from the Self Service Portal IdP and VIP Manager IdP tabs:
  • Self Service Portal IdP
    : Use this tab to configure end-user access to the Self Service Portal, and to configure how logs are rotated. You can also enable the My VIP portal from this tab.
  • VIP Manager IdP
    : Use this tab to configure administrator access to VIP Manager, and to configure how logs are rotated.
See
VIP Enterprise Gateway Installation and Configuration Guide
, online at the Broadcom TechDocs portal, for details on using third-party IdP services to provide secure access.