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Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Samsara

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In this article, you'll learn how to integrate Samsara with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Samsara with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Samsara.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Samsara 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.
  • Samsara single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this article, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

  • Samsara supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
  • Samsara supports Just In Time user provisioning.

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

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
  3. In the Add from the gallery section, type Samsara in the search box.
  4. Select Samsara 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 Samsara

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Samsara 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 Samsara.

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

  1. 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.
  2. Configure Samsara SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Samsara test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Samsara that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Samsara > Single sign-on.

  3. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  4. On the Set-up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns: https://cloud.samsara.com/signin/<ORGID> for US cloud customers https://cloud.eu.samsara.com/signin/<ORGID> for EU cloud customers

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: urn:auth0:samsara-dev:samlp-orgid-<ORGID>

    c. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://samsara-dev.auth0.com/login/callback?connection=samlp-orgid-<ORGID>

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign-on URL, Reply URL, and Identifier. Contact the Samsara Client support team to get these values, or in Samsara, go to Settings > Single-Sign-On > New SAML Connection to obtain the <ORGID>. You also can refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. On the Set-up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set-up Samsara section, copy the login URL

    Copy configuration URLs

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

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

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
  3. Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 Samsara.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Samsara.
  3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
  4. 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 Samsara SSO

To configure single sign-on on Samsara side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and Login URL from Azure portal to Samsara support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Samsara test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in Samsara. Samsara 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 Samsara, a new one is created after authentication with a default role of Standard Admin (No Dash Cam Access) for Organization. The user's access can then be increased or decreased as needed in Samsara.

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 Samsara Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Samsara 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 Samsara 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 Samsara 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 Samsara for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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