Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Hosted Graphite

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10/23/2023

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Hosted Graphite with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Hosted Graphite with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Hosted Graphite.
Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Hosted Graphite with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
Hosted Graphite single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

Hosted Graphite supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
Hosted Graphite supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Add Hosted Graphite from the gallery

To configure the integration of Hosted Graphite into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Hosted Graphite from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
In the Add from the gallery section, type Hosted Graphite in the search box.
Select Hosted Graphite from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Alternatively, you can also use the Enterprise App Configuration Wizard. In this wizard, you can add an application to your tenant, add users/groups to the app, assign roles, as well as walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Hosted Graphite

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Hosted Graphite using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Hosted Graphite.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Hosted Graphite, perform the following steps:

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
1. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
2. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
Configure Hosted Graphite SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
1. Create Hosted Graphite test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Hosted Graphite that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Hosted Graphite > Single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.
On the Basic SAML Configuration section, If you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following steps:

a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://www.hostedgraphite.com/metadata/<USER_ID>

b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://www.hostedgraphite.com/complete/saml/<USER_ID>
Click Set additional URLs and perform the following step if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://www.hostedgraphite.com/login/saml/<USER_ID>/

Note

Please note that these are not the real values. You have to update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign On URL. To get these values, you can go to Access->SAML setup on your Application side or Contact Hosted Graphite support team.
On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.
On the Set up Hosted Graphite section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
In the User properties, follow these steps:
1. In the Display name field, enter B.Simon.
2. In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example, B.Simon@contoso.com.
3. Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
4. Select Review + create.
Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to Hosted Graphite.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Hosted Graphite.
In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
2. If you are expecting a role to be assigned to the users, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown. If no role has been set up for this app, you see "Default Access" role selected.
3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Hosted Graphite SSO

Sign-on to your Hosted Graphite tenant as an administrator.
Go to the SAML Setup page in the sidebar (Access -> SAML Setup).
Confirm these URLs match your configuration done on the Basic SAML Configuration section.
In Entity or Issuer ID and SSO Login URL textboxes, paste the value of Microsoft Entra Identifier and Login URL..
Select Read-only as Default User Role.
Open your base-64 encoded certificate in notepad downloaded from Azure portal, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the X.509 Certificate textbox.
Click Save button.

Create Hosted Graphite test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Hosted Graphite. Hosted Graphite supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Hosted Graphite, a new one is created after authentication.

Note

If you need to create a user manually, you need to contact the Hosted Graphite support team.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

SP initiated:

Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Hosted Graphite Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Hosted Graphite Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Hosted Graphite for which you set up the SSO.

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Hosted Graphite tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Hosted Graphite for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Hosted Graphite you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.