IdP 2.4 question

[Kathy E. Wright]

Thank you Peter. This is a better configuration.

Kathy


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at>
wrote:

> * Kathy E. Wright <kewrig at clemson.edu> [2014-07-21 13:45]:
> > I would like to add and load new Shibboleth SP metadata to our IdP
> without
> > restarting the Tomcat container.   Can you tell me where this setting is
> > configured within /opt/shibboleth-idp/conf/
>
> Metadata Providers are defined in relying-party.xml and changes there
> either need to be configured to be auto-reloaded (not recommended) or
> require a container restart. So avoid changes to that file.
> More specifically there's no reason to add a new MetadataProvider for
> each new SP.  Instead put them all into the same local file (wrapped
> in an EntitiesDescriptor element) and just reference this file in a
> MetadataProvider. Then any changes to that file will be picked up
> automatically (MetadataProviders can do that, e.g. by adding
> maxRefreshDelay="PT1H").
>
> All that is assuming you're managing the metadata of those SPs
> yourself, i.e. these are local campus SPs or bilateral SPs you're not
> sharing a federation with.
> -peter
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