How to solve "unable to test federation connectivity. Cannot locate Identity Provider." in openAM?

Question

I am using openAM 11 on windows 7 professional 64-bit, jdk-1.7.0_45 and tomcat 7.0.53. And I have configured IDP and SP on seperate terminals,but when I try to test federation connectivity,I get this eror "Unable to test federation connectivity. Cannot locate Identity Provider, ."

Answer 1

i have never had any success with the "test federation connectivity" function in OpenAM/OpenSSO.

What I have used to test that the federation is up and going is spSSOInit.jsp. It starts a SAML authentication for the user making a request to it.

https://youropenamserver/openam/saml2/jsp/spSSOInit.jsp?metaAlias=<The SP meta alias>&idpEntityID=<The IdP entity id>

meta alias and entity id can be found on the configuration page for SP and IDP respectively.

More info on spSSOInit.jsp