PingFederate - what do you use for the SP?

Question

We are considering implementing PingFederate as an IdP.

PingFederate can also act as an SP - is it recommended that PingFederate, when acts as an SP, be hosted on a separate server from the PingFederate instance acting as the IdP.

We are an educational institution, it is likely that some of our integration applications, to the PingFederate IdP, will not have budget to purchase PingFederate licenses for SP. Do you use the open source SP from Internet2?

Answer 1

You can easily run PingFed in the IDP and SP role on the same server with the same PF server instance. It is not required to separate them. I would suggest talking with Regional Solutions Architect from Ping Identity to help identify the best setup for your institution.

--Ian