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Configuring the Security Fabric with SAML:

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Log in to the root FortiGate.


Go to Security Fabric > Fabric Connectors and double-click the Security Fabric Setup card.



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Enter the details of the SAML identity provider:

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The Entitity ID/ Issuer ID will match the Entity ID you specified in the DualShield Service Provider.

There are two parts for specifying the Sign-In and Log-Out Page URLs

The first part is that that you will use the SingleSignOnService and SingleLogoutService URLs you copied from the DualShield SSO Server Metadata (see previous section) respectively.

The second part is that you will append these URLs with some extra information.

e.g.

Sign-in page URL

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https://dualshield.yourdomain.com:8074/sso/Login/kvps/DASApplicationName/Ctera

Log-out page URL

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https://dualshield.yourdomain.com/sso/logout?DASApplicationName=Ctera



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Upload the Idp Certificate file

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In order to do this, you need to convert the 'crt'  file that was downloaded in the previous section to a 'cer' file.

To begin, Open the crt file and install the Certificate to your personal folder in Certificate manager


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Once installed the Certificate needs to be exported


Export it as a Base-64 encoded X.509 (.CER)


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You will also need to download the IdP Certificate

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Upload the exported CER file.


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