SAML SSO with Zendesk and openam

Question

I am trying SSO between my application and zendesk . I am using openam for this purpose. Suppose app is deployed as app.myapp.com . And I want to have SSO feature with zendesk, whose URL could be something like accountname.zendesk.com . How do I setup openam configurations?

Whatever I have read in documentation is that, there should be a server with openam installed on it. And this will serve as Hosted Identity Provider. Now zendesk is going to be a service provider. This will be remote service provider. So how do I set this up? Should there be another instance of openam acting as remote service provider?

Answer 1

I tried configuring openam for 2 days, but openam documents are too abstract and I couldn't get it to work. Then I tried SSO using JWT ie JSON Web Token . Now Single sign on between my application and Zendesk is working fine.