Direct Open Athens integration for users not registered with the UK Federation

Creating a 1-2-1 Athens SAML Integration

To add a new non UK Federation HEI to our Shibboleth SP configuration CLA require the following information:

1. your HEIs entityID
2. the metadata URL for your entityID

You will also need to add the DCS Service Provider (SP) metadata to your IDP configuration, the 3 SP entityIds and metadata URLs are:

Test Site

EntityID - https://test-dcs.cla.co.uk/shibboleth

Metadata - http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https:%2F%2Ftest-dcs.cla.co.uk%2Fshibboleth

Demo Site

EntityID - https://demo-dcs.cla.co.uk/shibboleth

Metadata - http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https:%2F%2Fdemo-dcs.cla.co.uk%2Fshibboleth

Production Site

EntityID - https://contentstore.cla.co.uk/shibboleth

Metadata - http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https:%2F%2Fcontentstore.cla.co.uk%2Fshibboleth

We will need to test the above in the test system to check that the integration is working. If you can only add 1 SP for the DCS to your IDP configuration, you will need to start with test and then replace this with the live metadata after testing is complete.

PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO A NEW AGREEMENT WITH OUR DEVELOPERS WE NOW REQUIRE FOUR MONTHS NOTICE BEFORE WE CAN UPDATE A DIRECT ATHENS INTEGRATION.