STS Client

The Security Token Service (STS) Client interface allows you to create and configure a client that communicates with OpenSSO's Security Token service in order to obtain a Security Token. OpenSSO provides the mechanism to create the following types of STS client agents:

Discovery Agent

Allows you to configure a Discovery Agent Client that communicates with the Liberty Discovery Service to obtain a Liberty-based security token. This configuration defines the attributes for securing Liberty requests from the Discovery client to the Liberty Discovery end point.

Security Token Service Agent

Allows you to configure a Security Token Service agent that communicates with OpenSSO's Security Token Service to obtain web service-based security tokens. This configuration defines the attributes fro securing web service Trust requests from the STS client to the STS end point.

In the STS Client interface, you can perform the following: