### Entity Providers

A entity provider holds the metadata for individual entity providers types. Federated Access Manager allows you create three types of entity providers based on Liberty protocols: SAMLv2, ID-FF, and WS-FED. Within each entity provider type, you can assign and customize a number of entity provider roles to perform specific functions in federation communication by using the attributes provided in the Federated Access Manager Console.

See the following sections for descriptions of the entity provider types and the entity provider roles you can assign:

- SAMLv2 Provider Entity

- ID-FF Provider Entity

- WS-FED Provider Entity