Once an organisation’s application for membership has been approved, and the option for participation determined, the organisation (or outsourced IdP/SP on behalf of the organisation) may register any number of identity provider and service provider entities:

  1. You install Shibboleth IdP and/or SP software
  2. You obtain a suitable X.509 server certificate
  3. Your Management Liaison e-mails a registration request to the federation helpdesk to register IdP and/or register SP entities
  4. You are sent an e-mail confirming that the technical description of each registered entity has been published in the federation metadata
  5. You download the metadata and modify your Shibboleth configuration to match it (described in SetupIdP and SetupSP).

Full registration details are available for the above steps.