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title: "Generating Audience Keys"
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<span style="color: #000000">Audience keys are required by your identity provider to setup for communication to Infoblox authentication services.</span>

# <span style="color: #000000">Okta and Azure AD</span>

<span style="color: #000000">To generate audience keys, complete the following:</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">Log in to the Infoblox SSO Portal at </span><span style="color: #000000">[https://sso.infoblox.com/](https://sso.infoblox.com/)</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">In the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Configure Audience**</span><span style="color: #000000"> section, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Generate Audience Keys**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">After you generate the audience keys, the </span><span style="color: #000000">**HUB ACS URL**</span><span style="color: #000000"> and </span><span style="color: #000000">**Audience URI**</span><span style="color: #000000"> appear in the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Configure Audience**</span><span style="color: #000000"> section.</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">Copy the </span><span style="color: #000000">**HUB ACS URL**</span><span style="color: #000000"> and </span><span style="color: #000000">**Audience URI **</span><span style="color: #000000">by clicking </span><span style="color: #000000">**Copy**</span><span style="color: #000000"> next to the target values. You need these values to set up a SAML application for the 3rd party IdP. Depending on your preference, you can paste these values into a notepad application, or copy and paste the value one at a time while editing your application in your IdP instance.</span>  
<span style="color: #000000">Keep the Infoblox SSO Portal application open while you configure your IdP application.</span>
5. <span style="color: #000000">After you have generated the audience information for your identity provider, you can proceed to the 3rd party IdP configuration, as follows:</span>
  1. <span style="color: #000000">*[Configuring SAML 2.0 Application for OKTA](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35366534)*</span>
  2. <u>*[Configuring SAML 2.0 Application for Microsoft Entra ID](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35366790)*</u>
  3. <span style="color: #000000">*[Mapping User Groups](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35463665)*</span>

# <span style="color: #000000">ForgeRock</span>

<span style="color: #000000">To generate audience keys, complete the following:</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">In the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Configure Audience**</span><span style="color: #000000"> section, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Generate Audience Keys**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">After you generate the audience keys, the </span><span style="color: #000000">**HUB ACS URL**</span><span style="color: #000000"> and </span><span style="color: #000000">**Audience URI**</span><span style="color: #000000"> appear in the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Configure Audience**</span><span style="color: #000000"> section.</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Download Metadata.xml**</span><span style="color: #000000"> to download the metadata required for configuring SAML 2.0 federation in ForgeRock.</span>  
<span style="color: #000000">Keep the Infoblox SSO Portal application open while you configure your IdP application.</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">After you have generated the audience information for your identity provider, you can proceed to the 3rd party IdP configuration, as follows:</span>
  1. *[Configuring SAML 2.0 Application for ForgeRock](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35430556)*
  2. <span style="color: #ff0000">*[Mapping User Groups](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneCloud/pages/35463665)*</span>