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Configure with SAML federated login

Configure using SAML federated identity

Settings for the connection to SmartCloud-y's sametime.

Note

In order to complete the process succesfully you need the following information:

Information Value What this means
Sametime community name cloudy It's the name of the sametime communiy
User login email user's email The email the user uses to access SmartCloud-y
Sametime server name st.ce.cloud-y.com The name of the sametime server, as noted below
Server connection type Direct connection with TLS The type of connections the client uses to connect to the server
SAML IDP Authentication URL Provided by the SmartCloud-y team Please contact the SmartCloud-y team in order to obtain your authentication URL

In the the preference page / "Service Community Details":

  1. Fill the "Server community name" field with "cloud-y"

Server comunity detail

In the "Login" tab:

  1. Complete the "Name" field using the user email address (SmartCloud-y's login username)
  2. Leave the "Password" field empty
  3. Do not check the "Remember password" checkbox
  4. Check the "Automatically login" checkbox in order to have the client automatically connect to Sametime at start (Sametime Connect or Notes Client)
  5. Ensure "Use token-based single sign-on" is enabled
  6. Set authentication server field to the information Factor-y provides
  7. Set authentication type to SAML
  8. Set authentication mode to Browser

Sametime login

In the "Server" tab:

  1. Fill the Host server field with: st.ce.cloud-y.com
  2. Fill the "Server community port" with the default value: 1533
  3. Check the "Send keep alive signal after the following number of seconds"
  4. Specify 60 as the value for the keepalive signal

Sametime server tab

In the "Connection" tab:

  1. Disable "use global connection settings" checkbox
  2. Select "Direct connection using TLS"

Sametime connection tab

SmartCloud-y's Sametime uses TLS encryption to protect sametime communication. It this setting is not configured connection to the server will fail and an error message will be returned to the user.

Restart the HCL Notes Client.

Save changes.

Note

Restart the HCL Notes Client and login to the Sametime server.

Last update: September 15, 2022