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SV2022
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Feb 10, 2024
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Difference between SSO under access policy and SSO in VPE

Is that mandatory to have SSO credential mapping via VPE whenever we have SSO created under access policy. i need to understand the relation between these 2 sso configurations    
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    KeesvandenBos
    Feb 12, 2024

    The SSO profile attached to a access policy has 2 or 3 variables, session.sso.token.last.username and session.sso.token.last.password (and others, depending on the SSO profile).

    These are not created by default in the VPE. The SSO credential mapping agent maps a username variable (most of the times session.logon.last.username, depending on what you select in the agent) into session.sso.token.last.username.
    You could do the same in a variable assign agent, F5 has created the SSO credential mapping to help engineers and to show in the VPE your mapping SSO credentials.

    So it is not mandatory.

    I hope I makes it a bit more clear.

    Cheers,

    Kees

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The SSO profile attached to a access policy has 2 or 3 variables, session.sso.token.last.username and session.sso.token.last.password (and others, depending on the SSO profile).

These are not created by default in the VPE. The SSO credential mapping agent maps a username variable (most of the times session.logon.last.username, depending on what you select in the agent) into session.sso.token.last.username.
You could do the same in a variable assign agent, F5 has created the SSO credential mapping to help engineers and to show in the VPE your mapping SSO credentials.

So it is not mandatory.

I hope I makes it a bit more clear.

Cheers,

Kees

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SV2022
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Feb 12, 2024

thanks for crystal clear answer.. 

1 more question is that mandatory to have the VPE edited (not leaving to default) for all APM polcies ?.What if i directly assign the values in SSO profile instead of session.sso.token.last.username example uername :ABCD paswrd:efgh .do i need to configure VPE here (not leaving to default) as i already have the values.

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    KeesvandenBos
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    Feb 12, 2024

    Your welcome.

    I think it is best to have static variable values in the VPE. You could assign the username and password for session.sso.token.last.username and session.sso.token.last.password in a variable assign agent. Also setting the password to secure so it is not readable in logging.

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      SV2022
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      Feb 12, 2024

      ok ..is that mandatory to have VPE modified from its default setting.

      will the access policy work only when the VPE is configured correctly . i remember VPE default setting is start--> deny.

      so if i create a access policy and leave the VPE untouched the policy will not work ?