探花大神

Use 探花大神 SAML Single Sign On (SSO) to give your users convenient but secure access to all their web applications with a single set of credentials. Automatically provision, update and deprovision users and groups in Front from 探花大神 using the Identity Management (SCIM) integration. Leverage this integration to centralize user lifecycle, user identity, and group management in 探花大神 for Front. Save time and avoid mistakes, as well as potential security risks, related to manually creating users.

Read this article to learn how to integrate with Front. 

Prerequisites

• A 探花大神 administrator account.
• A Front user account with administrator permissions.
• Your Front subdomain name.

Important Considerations for SCIM

• If you need to update the SCIM token key, you must deactivate the IdM integration, update the token key, and then reactivate the integration.
• Front supports creation and deletion of teammates through SCIM.

Attribute Considerations

• A default set of attributes are managed for users. See the Attribute Mappings section for more details.
• The following attributes are not supported by 探花大神:
  • roles

Creating a new 探花大神 Application Integration

1. Log in to the .
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Click + Add New Application.
4. Type the name of the application in the Search field and select it.
5. Click Next.
6. In the Display Label, type your name for the application. Optionally, you can enter a Description, adjust the User Portal Image and choose to hide or Show in User Portal.
7. Optionally, expand Advanced Settings to specify a value for the SSO IdP URL. If no value is entered, it will default to https://sso.jumpcloud.com/saml2/<applicationname>.

8. Click Save Application.
9. If successful, click:
   • Configure Application and go to the next section
   • Close to configure your new application at a later time

Configuring the SSO Integration

To configure 探花大神

1. Create a new application or select it from the Configured Applications list.
2. Select the SSO tab.
3. Replace any instances of YOUR_SUBDOMAIN with your Front subdomain name.
4. Add or change any attributes.
5. Click save.

Download the certificate

1. Find your application in the Configured Applications list and click anywhere in the row to reopen its configuration window.
2. Go to SSO tab > Actions > Download certificate.

To configure Front

1. Login to your Front account as an administrator.
2. Click on your user icon, then select Settings.
3. Click Preferences, then select Single Sign On.
4. Select SAML, then enter the following information:
   • ENTRY POINT - copy and paste the 探花大神 IDP URL.
   • Signing Certificate - copy and paste the certificate downloaded in the previous section.
5. Click Save.

Authorizing User SSO Access

Users are implicitly denied access to applications. After you connect an application to 探花大神, you need to authorize user access to that application. You can authorize user access from the Applications, Users List or User Groups 辫补驳别.听

To authorize user access from the Application’s page

1. Log in to the .
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications, then select the application to which you want to authorize user access.
3. Select the User Groups tab. If you need to create a new group of users, see Get Started: User Groups.
4. Select the check box next to the desired group of users to which you want to give access.
5. Click Save.听

To learn how to authorize user access from the聽Users or User Groups聽pages, see聽Authorize Users to an SSO Application.

Validating SSO user authentication workflow(s)

IdP-initiated user workflow

• Access the
• Go to聽Applications and click an application tile to launch it
• 探花大神 asserts the user's identity to the SP and is authenticated without the user having to log in to the application

SP-initiated user workflow

• Go聽to the SP application login - generally, there is either a special link or an adaptive username field that detects the user is authenticated through SSO

• Login redirects the user to 探花大神 where the user enters their 探花大神 credentials
• After the user is logged in successfully, they are redirected聽back to the SP and automatically logged in

Configuring the Identity Management Integration

To configure Front

1. Login to Front admin console.
2. Go to Settings > Developers > API Tokens.
3. Click Create API token.
4. Specify an API token name.
5. Specify the token's Scope by select the Provisioning and Auto-Provisioning.
6. Click Create.

To configure 探花大神

1. Create a new application or select it from the Configured Applications list.
2. Select the聽Identity Management聽tab.
3. 颁濒颈肠办听Configure and enter the following:
   • Token Key - paste the API Token generated in the previous section
4. Click Activate.
5. You will receive a confirmation that the Identity Management integration has been successfully verified.

Attribute Mappings

The following table lists attributes that 探花大神 sends to the application. See Attribute Considerations for more information regarding attribute mapping considerations. 

Learn about 探花大神 Properties and how they work with system users in our . 

Importing Users

This functionality is helpful if users have already been created in the application聽but have not been created in 探花大神.

1. Log in to the .
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Search for the application and click to open its configuration panel. 
4. Select the Identity Management tab.
5. Click manual import.
6. Select the users you want to create in 探花大神 from the application from the list of users that appear. Users in the list have two import statuses:
   • New - user has not been imported
   • Imported - user has been imported and has an account in 探花大神

7. Click import.
   • If you are importing less than 100 users, your import results will display in real time and you can continue onboarding your users 
   • If you have more than 100 users being imported, 探花大神 will send you an email when your import is complete

8. You can now connect and grant users access to all their 探花大神 resources. Learn more in the Authorize Users to an Application and Connecting Users to Resources articles.

SCIM Directory Insights Events

The following Directory Insights (DI) events provide visibility into failures and detailed information about the user and group data being added or updated from HR or other external solutions to 探花大神.

SCIM DI Group Events

Removing the Integration

To deactivate the IdM Integration

1. Log in to the .
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Search for the application that you鈥檇 like to deactivate and click to open its details panel. 
4. Under the company name and logo on the left hand panel, click the Deactivate IdM connection link.
5. Click confirm. 
6. If successful, you will receive a confirmation message.

To deactivate the SSO Integration or Bookmark

1. Log in to the .
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Search for the application that you鈥檇 like to deactivate and click to open its details panel. 
4. Select the聽SSO or Bookmark聽tab.
5. Scroll to the bottom of the configuration.
6. Click Deactivate SSO or Deactivate Bookmark. 
7. Click save. 
8. If successful, you will receive a confirmation message.

To delete the application

1. Log in to the .
2. Go to USER AUTHENTICATION > SSO Applications.
3. Search for the application that you鈥檇 like to delete.
4. Check the box next to the application to select it.
5. Click Delete.
6. Enter the number of the applications you are deleting
7. Click Delete Application.
8. If successful, you will see an application deletion confirmation notification.