Describe your setup sequence for implementing single sign-on (SSO) to access FAW.

Describe your setup sequence for implementing single sign-on (SSO) to access FAW.

• A. Set up single sign-on (SSO) before proceeding with the FAW instance creation
• B. Set up SSO after FAW instance creation
• C. SSO is optional
• D. Use SSO only after data migration

Answer: (A)

Implementing SSO before creating the FAW instance ensures authentication is wired into the environment from day one. When you configure your Identity Provider (IdP) and set up the service provider (FAW) metadata upfront, the FAW instance is provisioned with SSO that users will use immediately, and you can establish correct user and group mappings from the start. This avoids later reconfiguration, which can be error-prone or cause access interruptions, since changing authentication after the fact may require updating endpoints, certificates, and provisioning rules while users are trying to sign in. In practice, you would register FAW with your IdP, exchange the necessary metadata, configure the assertion consumer service URL and entity ID, install or exchange certificates, and map IdP groups to FAW roles. After these steps, you test sign-in to confirm that users flow through the IdP as expected and have the correct access. Choosing to set up SSO after FAW creation can work, but it often introduces extra setup work, potential downtime, and reconfiguration challenges. Treating SSO as an early provisioning step aligns access control with the platform from the start.

Implementing SSO before creating the FAW instance ensures authentication is wired into the environment from day one. When you configure your Identity Provider (IdP) and set up the service provider (FAW) metadata upfront, the FAW instance is provisioned with SSO that users will use immediately, and you can establish correct user and group mappings from the start. This avoids later reconfiguration, which can be error-prone or cause access interruptions, since changing authentication after the fact may require updating endpoints, certificates, and provisioning rules while users are trying to sign in.

In practice, you would register FAW with your IdP, exchange the necessary metadata, configure the assertion consumer service URL and entity ID, install or exchange certificates, and map IdP groups to FAW roles. After these steps, you test sign-in to confirm that users flow through the IdP as expected and have the correct access.

Choosing to set up SSO after FAW creation can work, but it often introduces extra setup work, potential downtime, and reconfiguration challenges. Treating SSO as an early provisioning step aligns access control with the platform from the start.