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**Oracle EBS Application:** BIG-IP published service to be protected by Azure AD SHA.
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**Azure AD:** Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Identity Provider (IdP) responsible for verification of user credentials, Conditional Access (CA), and SSO to the BIG-IP.
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**Azure AD:** Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Identity Provider (IdP) responsible for verification of user credentials, Conditional Access (CA), and SAML based SSO to the BIG-IP. Through SSO, Azure AD provides the BIG-IP with any required session attributes.
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**Oracle Internet Directory (OID):** Hosts the user database. BIG-IP checks via LDAP for authorization attributes.
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**Oracle AccessGate:** Validates authorization attributes through back channel with OID service, before issuing EBS access cookies
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**BIG-IP:** Reverse proxy and SAML service provider (SP) to the application, delegating authentication to the SAML IdP before performing header-based SSO to the Oracle service.
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**BIG-IP:** Reverse proxy and SAML service provider (SP) to the application, delegating authentication to the SAML IdP before performing header-based SSO to the Oracle application.
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SHA for this scenario supports both SP and IdP initiated flows. The following image illustrates the SP initiated flow.
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| 1| User connects to application endpoint (BIG-IP) |
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| 2| BIG-IP APM access policy redirects user to Azure AD (SAML IdP) |
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| 3| Azure AD pre-authenticates user and applies any enforced Conditional Access policies |
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| 4| User is redirected back to BIG-IP with issued token and claims|
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| 5| BIG-IP authenticates user and performs LDAP query for user Unique ID (UID) attribute |
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| 4| User is redirected back to BIG-IP (SAML SP) and SSO is performed using issued SAML token|
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| 5| BIG-IP performs LDAP query for users Unique ID (UID) attribute |
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| 6| BIG-IP injects returned UID attribute as user_orclguid header in EBS session cookie request to Oracle AccessGate |
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| 7| Oracle AccessGate validates UID against Oracle Internet Directory (OID) service and issues EBS access cookie
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| 8| EBS user headers and cookie sent to application and returns the payload to the user |
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* An account with Azure AD application admin [permissions](/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin-roles#application-administrator)
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*[SSL certificate](./f5-bigip-deployment-guide.md#ssl-profile) for publishing services over HTTPS
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*An [SSL Web certificate](./f5-bigip-deployment-guide.md#ssl-profile) for publishing services over HTTPS, or use default BIG-IP certs while testing
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* An existing Oracle EBS suite including Oracle AccessGate and an LDAP enabled OID (Oracle Internet Database)
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The **Service Provider** settings define the SAML SP properties for the APM instance representing the application protected through SHA.
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1. Enter **Host**. This is the public FQDN of the application being secured. You need a corresponding DNS record for clients to resolve this address, but using a localhost record is fine during testing
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1. Enter **Host**. This is usually the FQDN that will be used for the applications external URL
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2. Enter **Entity ID**. This is the identifier Azure AD will use to identify the SAML SP requesting a token
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When a user successfully authenticates, Azure AD issues a SAML token with a default set of claims and attributes uniquely identifying the user. The **User Attributes & Claims** tab shows the default claims to issue for the new application. It also lets you configure more claims.
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You can include additional Azure AD attributes if necessary, but the Oracle EBS scenario only requires the default attributes.
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A virtual server is a BIG-IP data plane object represented by a virtual IP address listening for client requests to the application. Any received traffic is processed and evaluated against the APM profile associated with the virtual server, before being directed according to the policy results and settings.
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1. Enter **Destination Address**. This is any available IPv4/IPv6 address that the BIG-IP can use to receive client traffic. A corresponding record should also exist in DNS, enabling clients to resolve the external URL of your BIG-IP published application to this IP.
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1. Enter **Destination Address**. This is any available IPv4/IPv6 address that the BIG-IP can use to receive client traffic. A corresponding record should also exist in DNS, enabling clients to resolve the external URL of your BIG-IP published application to this IP, instead of the appllication itself. Using a test PC's localhost DNS is fine for testing.
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