Tutorial: Configure SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication for automatic user provisioning

The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate the steps to be performed in SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to configure Azure AD to automatically provision and de-provision users to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication.

Note

This tutorial describes a connector built on top of the Azure AD User Provisioning Service. For important details on what this service does, how it works, and frequently asked questions, see Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning to SaaS applications with Azure Active Directory.

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this tutorial assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

• An Azure AD tenant
• A SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication tenant
• A user account in SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication with Admin permissions.

Note

This integration is also available to use from Azure AD US Government Cloud environment. You can find this application in the Azure AD US Government Cloud Application Gallery and configure it in the same way as you do from public cloud.

Assigning users to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication

Azure Active Directory uses a concept called assignments to determine which users should receive access to selected apps. In the context of automatic user provisioning, only the users that have been assigned to an application in Azure AD are synchronized.

Before configuring and enabling automatic user provisioning, you should decide which users in Azure AD need access to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication. Once decided, you can assign these users to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication by following the instructions here:

• Assign a user to an enterprise app

Important tips for assigning users to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication

• It is recommended that a single Azure AD user is assigned to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication to test the automatic user provisioning configuration. Additional users may be assigned later.

• When assigning a user to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication, you must select any valid application-specific role (if available) in the assignment dialog. Users with the Default Access role are excluded from provisioning.

Setup SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication for provisioning

1. Sign in to your SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Admin Console. Navigate to Users & Authorizations > Administrators.

   

2. Press the +Add button on the left hand panel in order to add a new administrator to the list. Choose Add System and enter the name of the system.

Note

The admininistrator user in SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication must be of type System. Creating a normal administrator user can lead to unauthorized errors while provisioning.

3. Under Configure Authorizations, switch on the toggle button against Manage Users.

   

4. You will receive an email to activate your account and set a password for SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Service.

5. Copy the User ID and Password. These values will be entered in the Admin Username and Admin Password fields respectively in the Provisioning tab of your SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication application in the Azure portal.

Add SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication from the gallery

Before configuring SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication for automatic user provisioning with Azure AD, you need to add SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication from the Azure AD application gallery to your list of managed SaaS applications.

To add SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication from the Azure AD application gallery, perform the following steps:

1. In the Azure portal, in the left navigation panel, select Azure Active Directory.

   

2. Go to Enterprise applications, and then select All applications.

   

3. To add a new application, select the New application button at the top of the pane.

   

4. In the search box, enter SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication, select SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication in the results panel, and then click the Add button to add the application.

   

Configuring automatic user provisioning to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication

This section guides you through the steps to configure the Azure AD provisioning service to create, update, and disable users in SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication based on users assignments in Azure AD.

Tip

You may also choose to enable SAML-based single sign-on for SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication, following the instructions provided in the SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Single sign-on tutorial. Single sign-on can be configured independently of automatic user provisioning, though these two features compliment each other

To configure automatic user provisioning for SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication in Azure AD:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal. Select Enterprise Applications, then select All applications.

   

2. In the applications list, select SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication.

   

3. Select the Provisioning tab.

   

4. Set the Provisioning Mode to Automatic.

   

5. Under the Admin Credentials section, input https://<tenantID>.accounts.ondemand.com/service/scim in Tenant URL. Input the User ID and Password values retrieved earlier in Admin Username and Admin Password respectively. Click Test Connection to ensure Azure AD can connect to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication. If the connection fails, ensure your SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication account has Admin permissions and try again.

   

6. In the Notification Email field, enter the email address of a person or group who should receive the provisioning error notifications and check the checkbox - Send an email notification when a failure occurs.

   

7. Click Save.

8. Under the Mappings section, select Synchronize Azure Active Directory Users to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication.

   

9. Review the user attributes that are synchronized from Azure AD to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication in the Attribute Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the user accounts in SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication for update operations. Select the Save button to commit any changes.

   

10. To configure scoping filters, refer to the following instructions provided in the Scoping filter tutorial.

11. To enable the Azure AD provisioning service for SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication, change the Provisioning Status to On in the Settings section.

    

12. Define the users that you would like to provision to SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication by choosing the desired values in Scope in the Settings section.

    

13. When you are ready to provision, click Save.

    

This operation starts the initial synchronization of all users defined in Scope in the Settings section. The initial sync takes longer to perform than subsequent syncs, which occur approximately every 40 minutes as long as the Azure AD provisioning service is running. You can use the Synchronization Details section to monitor progress and follow links to provisioning activity report, which describes all actions performed by the Azure AD provisioning service on SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication.

For more information on how to read the Azure AD provisioning logs, see Reporting on automatic user account provisioning.

Connector limitations

• SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication's SCIM endpoint requires certain attributes to be of specific format. You can know more about these attributes and their specific format here.

Additional resources

• Managing user account provisioning for Enterprise Apps
• What is application access and single sign-on with Azure Active Directory?

Next steps

• Learn how to review logs and get reports on provisioning activity