Your application needs to support at least one protocol for interacting with Okta: SAML or OIDC for authentication, or SCIM for provisioning.
Protocol support details can be submitted all together or asynchronously. For example, if your application currently only supports SAML and SCIM, you can create the submission with the SAML and SCIM protocol details. At a later date, when you add OIDC support to your application, you can return to your integration submission, activate the OIDC support panel, and add in the details needed for Okta to enable OIDC support.
For each protocol, click on the appropriate tab name and change the protocol support drop-down box from Off to On .
Instance URL For each protocol, enter the Okta instance URL for your integration in the first field.
To get your Okta instance URL:
Open the Okta Admin Console in your development org. Click Applications > Applications to see all the integrations in your org. Click on the name of the integration you are going to submit. The browser opens the settings page. Confirm that the settings match what you want as the global defaults for all customers. In your browser, click on the address bar showing the current URL and copy it to your clipboard. This is the Okta instance URL for your integration. Back in the OIN Manager, paste that URL into your submission. Protocol-specific settings Each of the supported protocols has different configuration settings for the remainder of the submission.
Setup instructions Is your Service Provider configured as a “Big Bang”? — If Yes , what is the backdoor URL for admins to sign in if SAML is misconfigured? If the SP is a "Big Bang", Okta suggests that you have a backdoor URL or some other recovery mechanism available.
Is SAML support available in the SP for all tenants by default or is it available only for specific SKUs? — If you select Certain SKUs , provide details on which products provide SAML support.
To configure SAML, can your customers do it by themselves from your app's UI, or do they need to contact your support team? — If a customer needs support to configure your app integration, you need to include support contact information in your configuration guide. We recommend that you build a UI that enables self-service configuration to reduce the setup time for your customers.
Are tenants deployed on-premises? — If tenant data for your application is hosted locally on your customer's systems, select Yes . If the tenant data for your application is hosted on your servers, select No .
Is your app capable of requesting other SSO URLs? — Select this option to configure support for multiple ACS URLs where the SAML Response can be sent. If Yes , specify an index or URL to identify each ACS URL endpoint. If an AuthnRequest message does not specify an index or URL, the SAML Response is sent to the default ACS URL specified above. Enter the SSO URLs and an index value for any other nodes. You can specify variables in the SSO URL field to construct non-static URLs, for example, https://${app.variableName}.okta.com.
What is the unique SAML identifier for authentication: the subject NameID or a specific SAML attribute? — What identifier is used by the integration to perform authentication against your SAML application? If you are using an attribute different than the NameID attribute, what is the name of that attribute?
Link to configuration guide — Your configuration guide (in either HTML or PDF format) should have step-by-step instructions on how to configure SSO between Okta and your systems. See Prepare a customer-facing configuration guide .
Does your ACS URL or Audience URI vary per tenant? — If you select Yes , a new field appears to assist you in setting up a per tenant configuration.
What variables do your admins need to specify to install your app? — When you click Add Variable , the interface displays a dialog box to collect the following information:
Label Name — A descriptive name for the dynamic variable that administrators see when installing your app integration.
Variable Name — An automatically generated variable used when constructing the dynamic address. This is hidden from admins and is only passed to your external application.
Help Text — Any descriptive text to be shown to administrators when installing your app integration.
Type — The property type for your parameter. Options are "String", "URL", or "HTTPS URL".
Click Save to add the variable to the list.
After the variable is created, you can click the pencil icon to make changes to the details, the clipboard icon to copy the Variable Name to your local clipboard, or the "X" icon to remove the variable entirely.
Construct your dynamic ACS URL by copying the variables above and pasting them where applicable — Provide your complete Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL endpoint where Okta posts SAML responses for your app integration.
If you're using a per tenant design, include the variable names that you created. For example:
https://${app.variableName}.okta.comhttps://okta-${app.variableName}.comConstruct your dynamic Audience URI by copying the variables above and pasting them where applicable — Provide your complete Audience URI. This field, which dictates the audience the SAML Assertion is intended for, can be any data string up to 1024 characters long.
It is typically in the form of a URL, often the same as the ACS URL for your app integration. If you're using a per tenant design, include the variable names that you created, the same as for the ASC URL.
If you select No , the ACS URL and Audience URI are pulled from the app during the submission review.
Supported features Do you support SAML Just-In-Time provisioning? — With Just-in-Time provisioning, you can use a SAML assertion to create users on the fly the first time they try to log in. This eliminates the need to create user accounts in advance.
Do you support receiving SAML user/group attribute statements? — If Yes , you can add the attribute statements or group attribute statements in the provided fields. For more details on configuring attribute statements in SAML integrations, see Create a SAML integration using AIW(opens new window) .
Can one tenant connect to multiple Identity Providers? — Select Yes if your customers can set up a SAML connection between their tenant in your application and multiple external IdPs or even multiple instances inside a single IdP.
What type(s) of sign-in flows do you support? — Choose from IdP or SP initiated, or both. If you support SP-initiated flows, you must specify the URL used to initiate the SP flow and include a description of how the SP flow is triggered by your integration.
Force authentication? — Select Yes if your application forces users to authenticate again, even if they have an existing session. If you select Yes , include how customers configure force authentication on your end? Provide the steps for Okta to test this forced authentication.
Do you use encrypted assertions? — Select Yes if you support an encryption method for authentication assertion.
Encryption Algorithm — Select which standard algorithm is used in your encryption assertion.Key Transport Algorithm — Select the key transport algorithm used in your encryption.Are you going to use the same encryption certificate for all tenants? — If you support the same encryption certificate for all tenants, copy your certificate and paste it in the field provided.Do you support SP-initiated Single-Logout? — If you select Yes , then Are you going to use the same single-logout certificate for all tenants?
If you support the same single-logout certificate for all tenants, copy your certificate and paste it in the field provided.
The Single Logout URL and SP Issuer should be specified in the test application.
Note: Okta only supports signed logout requests.
Do you require a default relay state — The default relay state is the page where your users land after they successfully sign on. If you have this configured, enter a specific application resource for an IdP initiated Single Sign-On scenario.
Review info Optional: link to demo video — If you have prepared a video that explains how to configure access to your SAML application, enter the URL here. A short demo video showing your working test application helps expedite the review process. Please show the IdP and SP-initiated sign-in flows and sign-out (if applicable).
Optional: link to the test results of a SAML validation tool — Use the tool at http://saml.oktadev.com(opens new window) to validate your SAML Service Provider implementation. The results help expedite the review process.
As you add configuration information about your integration to the submission page, the indicators in the top right show your progress towards 100% completion.
You must include all required information before you can click the Submit for Review button to move your integration into the submission phase.
