PingOne Advanced Services PingFederate configuration is ignored #189

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Description

Ping CLI documents configuration under service.advancedServices.pingFederate, and the project README lists PingOne Advanced Services as a supported service. However, enabling only the Advanced Services PingFederate configuration does not register a usable service or command path.

The configuration is accepted and retained, but:

• the global authentication status reports that no services are enabled;
• pingfederate commands check the ordinary service.pingFederate configuration instead; and
• pingcli init offers PingOne and ordinary PingFederate, but no PingOne Advanced Services option.

This prevents the documented P1AS configuration from being used with a hosted PingFederate Admin API.

Ping CLI Version

Reproduced with:

• pingcli version 1.5.0 (commit: c544919774fb2a270dd420ef7aba9fb9d90b6f46)
• Ping CLI 1.6.0 official macOS arm64 release binary

Affected Command(s)

• pingcli -P p1as auth status
• pingcli -P p1as pingfederate auth status
• pingcli -P p1as pingfederate version get
• pingcli init

Debug Output

With debug logging enabled, Ping CLI builds and initializes the ordinary PingFederate connector, but there is no corresponding initialization of the configured Advanced Services PingFederate connector.

The user-visible result includes:

$ pingcli -P p1as auth status
No services are enabled.

The pingfederate commands report that PingFederate authentication is not configured because ordinary service.pingFederate is deliberately disabled.

A complete sanitized debug log can be supplied if useful. No tenant identifiers, client credentials, or tenant hostnames are included here.

Panic Output

No panic.

Expected Behavior

When service.advancedServices.pingFederate.enabled is true, Ping CLI should recognize the service and provide a supported command path for it.

If the existing pingfederate commands are intended to manage hosted PingFederate, they should use the configured P1AS Admin API host and explicit PingOne token URL. If a separate command is intended, it should be registered and documented.

At minimum, auth status should recognize the enabled Advanced Services service rather than reporting that no services are enabled.

Actual Behavior

The Advanced Services settings are accepted by the configuration model but appear unused by command and connector registration. Only the ordinary PingFederate connector is available.

Enabling ordinary PingFederate is not an equivalent workaround: that connector derives OAuth endpoints from the PingFederate runtime base URL, while P1AS machine authentication uses an explicit PingOne token endpoint.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a profile with ordinary PingFederate disabled.
2. Configure the documented service.advancedServices.pingFederate settings with OAuth client credentials, an external P1AS PingFederate Admin API host, and an explicit PingOne token URL.
3. Set service.advancedServices.pingFederate.enabled=true.
4. Run:

pingcli -P p1as auth status
pingcli -P p1as pingfederate auth status
pingcli -P p1as pingfederate version get

5. Observe that the Advanced Services configuration is not recognized.
6. Run pingcli init and observe that no Advanced Services configuration option is offered. The behavior is unchanged when experimental features are enabled.

Important Factoids

• The target is PingFederate hosted in PingOne Advanced Services, not a self-managed PingFederate deployment.
• The P1AS Admin API and OAuth token endpoint are intentionally separate: the Admin API is on the tenant's external PingFederate Admin API hostname, while client-credentials tokens come from the PingOne administrator environment.

References

• https://developer.pingidentity.com/pingcli/1.5/settings_reference/configuration-settings-reference.html
• https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingoneadvancedservices/2.1/task_summary_table/p1as_platform_admin_api.html
• https://github.com/pingidentity/pingcli/releases/tag/v1.5.0
• https://github.com/pingidentity/pingcli/releases/tag/v1.6.0