Configure the PeopleSoft application

During this task we will create the Oracle PeopleSoft application in Access Gateway.

Tasks

Add the application

  1. Sign in to the Access Gateway Admin UI console.

  2. Click the Applications tab.

  3. Click +Add.

  4. Select Oracle PeopleSoft from the left column menu, and upper right-click Create.

Configure the application

  1. In the Essentials pane enter:

    Field Value
    Label

    The name of the application, as shown in your Okta tenant.

    For example: PeopleSoft SSO.
    Public Domain

    The customer facing URL of the PeopleSoft application.

    For example: https://ps-external.example.com

    <gateway.info> must match the PeopleSoft domain, which is in the Protected Web Resource section as domain.tld.
    Protected Web Resource

    The URL and port combination of the Oracle PeopleSoft Implementation being protected.

    For example: http://ps-internal.example.com:8000 See Configure load balancing.
    Post Login URL

    Browseable route-through location to pick up the required cookie from Okta Access Gateway and pass along to the Oracle PeopleSoft implementation.

    For example https://ps-external.example.com/psp/ps/.

    Note that the post login URL is automatically populated and can contain other elements specific to the implementation.

    Group The group containing users who can access the PeopleSoft instance.
  2. Expand Advanced section and click enable Content Rewrite.

Configure load balancing

Available since Access Gateway version 2022.2.3

Okta recommends that whenever possible load balancers and Access Gateway as a load balancer be implemented.
See Load balancing.

  1. Expand the Protected Web Resource tab.
  2. Enable Load Balancing By Access Gateway.

    A table of hostnames and weights representing the target load balancing instances appears. This table is initially empty. Click edit to modify an entry in the table, or click delete to delete an entry.

  3. Choose either HTTP or HTTPS as the URL scheme. Each protected web resource that you add inherits this scheme.
  4. Optional. Enable and specify Host Header value.
  5. Complete the following steps to add a host, repeat as required:
    1. Click Add protected web resource.
    2. Enter a fully qualified hostname:port combination (for example, https://backendserver1.atko.com:7001).
    3. Enter a weight from 1 to 100. Enter 0 to specify that a host is disabled.

      Weights represent the percentage of requests that will be routed to this host.

      For example, two hosts of weights 2:1 would result in requests being routed ~66% to the host weighted 2 and ~33% to the host weighted 1.

    4. Click Okay.

  6. Optional. Configure health checks, which use GET operations to confirm that back-end resources are functional.

    New requests aren't routed to resources that have been labeled unhealthy by the health checks.

    1. Enable Load Balancer Health Check.
    2. Click Edit to modify health check settings.
    3. Modify settings as required.
      FieldValue

      Default

      PathURI to resource used in health check./
      MethodHTTP method used.Always GET
      Status codeHTTP status code used to determine health.200
      IntervalInterval between health checks in seconds.10
      Request timeoutHealth check request timeout in seconds.1
      Healthy thresholdNumber of successful requests before a host is considered healthy.3
      Unhealthy thresholdNumber of failed requests before a host is considered unhealthy.3
    4. Click Save to save changes or click Cancel to exit without saving.

Configure certificates

    While optional, Okta recommends that all applications include certificates.

    See Certificate use for general information about certificate, or Certificate management for a general task flow for obtaining and assigning certificates.

  1. Expand the Certificates tab.

    By default, when you create the application the system generates a self-signed wildcard certificate and assigns it to the app.

  2. Optional. Click Generate self-signed certificate. A self-signed certificate is created and automatically assigned to the application.

  3. Optional. Select an existing certificate from the list of provided certificates.

    Use the Search field to narrow the set of certificates by common name. Use the page forward (>) and backward (<) arrows to navigate through the list of available certificates.

  4. Click Next. The Attributes pane appears. See Application attributes.

    The required attributes are pre-populated, and are presented for reference.

  5. Verify the login attribute:
    Data SourceFieldTypeName
    IDP

    login

    The attribute in your Okta tenant that stores the PeopleSoft username. This can be a different attribute or can use Okta username mapping to create the PeopleSoft username dynamically.

    		HeaderPSUSER
  6. Click Done.

The application is added and the Application list page is displayed.