Authentication Institution Settings

The institution settings on the Authentication screen are available so you can configure authentication settings for ebs websites, that is: ebs: ontrack Hub and ebs: ontrack Learner Hub.

Note: Refer to ebs: central Configuration for further information about institution settings for Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace.

The fields on the Authentication screen are described in the following table.

This field Holds this information...
Identity Provider URL The identity provider URL, such as https://login.microsoftonline.com/875234d9-89cf-4eb0-b006-04d19cc27e89/v2.0
Identity Provider Client ID for Ontrack Learner Hub The identity provider client ID to use when logging into ebs: ontrack Learner Hub. For example, 83886288-4849-4b8b-a714-4d4dadcf9569.
Identity Provider token scope for Ontrack Learner Hub The identity provider token scope to use when logging into ebs: ontrack Learner Hub. For example, openid profile.
Identity Provider Client ID for Ontrack Hub The identity provider client ID to use when logging into ebs: ontrack Hub. For example, 93886288-4849-4b8b-a714-4d4dadcf9569.
Identity Provider token scope for Ontrack Hub The identity provider token scope to use when logging into ebs: ontrack Hub. For example, openid profile.
Identity Provider Client ID for ebs Central The identity provider client ID to use when logging into ebs: central, such as 93886288.
Identity Provider token scope for ebs Central

The identity provider token scope to use when logging into ebs: central with Identity Server.

This field must be set to openid profile.

Default OIDC issuer The OpenID Connect (OIDC) issuer.
Dual authentication link message for ontrack Prospect The link message to display on the ebs: ontrack Learner Hub login screen for institutions that are using dual authentication.
Dual authentication button text Defines the text shown on the dual authentication button on the login page in ontrack.
Dual authentication button alt/hint text Defines the alt text shown on the dual authentication button on the login page in ontrack.
Dual authentication button show logo Whether the dual authentication button includes the Microsoft or Google logo.
External authentication ontrack Learner Hub URL Text field to contain the URL for your external authentication ontrack URL
External authentication ontrack Learner Hub OIDC issuer Contains a drop down of options based on the OIDC issuers reference data
External authentication ontrack Learner Hub client ID Text field to contain the client ID for your external authentication tenant.
External authentication ontrack Learner Hub token scope Text field to contain the token scope for the external authentication
External authentication ontrack Learner Hub link message Text field to contain the message to be displayed to learners to guide them to the external authentication sign up/sign in.
External authentication ontrack Hub Enabled Whether external authentication is enabled for ontrack Hub.
External authentication ontrack Hub show ebs login page Whether the ebs login page i.n ontrack Hub is displayed to an end-user or bypassed to only show the external authentication provider page.
External authentication ontrack Hub URL Text field to contain the URL for your external authentication ontrack URL
External authentication ontrack Hub OIDC issuer Contains a drop down of options based on the OIDC issuers reference data
External authentication ontrack Hub Client ID Text field to contain the client ID for your external authentication tennant.
External authentication ontrack Hub token scope Text field to contain the token scope for the external authentication
External authentication ontrack link message Text field to contain the message to be displayed to staff to guide them to the external authentication sign up/sign in.
ebs Authentication for ontrack Hub? (Y/N) Whether the ebs username and password are displayed on the login page in ontrack Hub.
External Authentication show Registration page to new users

Defines whether a new B2C external user is shown the registration page to capture additional details, such as a date of birth.

When set to Y, a new user is redirected to the UserRegistrationExternal page to allow an institution to capture further details about the user, such as a date of birth.

When set to N, a new user is redirected to the UserRegistrationExternalNonInteractive page and the user will not be required to complete any additional fields to complete their registration.

Note: When using this flow then you may wish to consider mandating population of fields in B2C. If Surname is not specified, this page will use a default of 'Not specified' as within ebs a Surname is a mandatory field.

The ebs username allowed to act as the Identity Provider service account The ebs username to be used for the identity provider service account.
The value allowed when the SMS is used as the authentication issuer The value allowed when the SMS is used as the authentication issuer.
The Identity Provider access token scope which identifies the rest services The identity provider access token scope that identifies the rest services.

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