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Metadata Administration Tool
This online tool allows for editing the SAML metadata of the participating entities (Identity Provider, Service Provider, Attribute Authorities) and the registration of those entities with the several metadata sets published by the DFN-AAI. Each home organization resp. service provider operator is granted access after signing the paperwork with us (see Registration). You can find the metadata administration tool at
- https://www.aai.dfn.de/en/administration/ (until Nov 8th, 2022)
- https://mdv.aai.dfn.de (as of Nov 9th, 2022)
Metadata Registration Practice Statement
Introduction of a new metadata admin tool in November 2022
We will introduce a new tool for metadata administration on Nov. 9th, 2022. Read how to use it below.Accounts and account settings
How to get access
Metadata admins can be appointed by the contractual or technical contact persons registered in the DFN-AAI contract database. In the metadata administration tool, these persons are listed with the contract data of your organization or company.
If you signed a contract for DFN-AAI with us in one of those roles, you can just send us an email to hotline@aai.dfn.de containing the following information for each person designated as metadata admin:
- first and last name,
- the e-mail address and
- the business telephone number.
The user credentials will then be sent directly to each of the new metadata admins.
Please note that we added a new role called “subadmin” (as of 11/9/2022). Metadata admins can invite subadmins independently and delegate the administration of metadata of individual IdPs/SPs to them. (See below for details.)