CreateSAMLProvider - Resource Access Management - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Creates an identity provider (IdP) for role-based SSO.

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ram:CreateSAMLProvider	Write	SAMLProvider acs:ram::{#accountId}:saml-provider/*	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
SAMLProviderName	string	Yes	The name of the IdP. The value can be up to 128 characters in length. The name can contain letters, digits, `periods (.), hyphens (-), and underscores (_)`. The name cannot start or end with `periods (.), hyphens (-), or underscores (_)`.	test-provider
Description	string	No	The description.	This is a provider.
EncodedSAMLMetadataDocument	string	Yes	The metadata file, which is Base64 encoded. The file is provided by an IdP that supports SAML 2.0.	PD94bWwgdmVy****

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	A95A763D-F6B7-5242-83EB-AB45CE67F358
SAMLProvider	object	The information of the IdP.
UpdateDate	string	The update time.	2020-10-22T02:51:20Z
Description	string	The description.	This is a provider.
SAMLProviderName	string	The name of the IdP.	test-provider
CreateDate	string	The creation time.	2020-10-22T02:37:05Z
Arn	string	The Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) of the IdP.	acs:ram::177242285274****:saml-provider/test-provider

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "A95A763D-F6B7-5242-83EB-AB45CE67F358",
  "SAMLProvider": {
    "UpdateDate": "2020-10-22T02:51:20Z",
    "Description": "This is a provider.",
    "SAMLProviderName": "test-provider",
    "CreateDate": "2020-10-22T02:37:05Z",
    "Arn": "acs:ram::177242285274****:saml-provider/test-provider"
  }
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.