Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Radiant IOT Portal
In this article, you'll learn how to integrate Radiant IOT Portal with Microsoft Entra ID. Radiant's IOT Portal is used by federal and commercial customers for asset tracking and accountability solutions based on IOT tracking technologies. When you integrate Radiant IOT Portal with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:
- Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Radiant IOT Portal.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Radiant IOT Portal with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
- Manage your accounts in one central location.
You'll configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on for Radiant IOT Portal in a test environment. Radiant IOT Portal supports SP initiated single sign-on and Just In Time user provisioning.
Prerequisites
To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Radiant IOT Portal, you need:
- A Microsoft Entra user account. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
- One of the following roles: Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Application Owner.
- A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
- Radiant IOT Portal single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
Add application and assign a test user
Before you begin the process of configuring single sign-on, you need to add the Radiant IOT Portal application from the Microsoft Entra gallery. You need a test user account to assign to the application and test the single sign-on configuration.
Add Radiant IOT Portal from the Microsoft Entra gallery
Add Radiant IOT Portal from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to configure single sign-on with Radiant IOT Portal. For more information on how to add application from the gallery, see the Quickstart: Add application from the gallery.
Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user
Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account article to create a test user account called B.Simon.
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, and assign roles. The wizard also provides a link to the single sign-on configuration pane. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards..
Configure Microsoft Entra SSO
Complete the following steps to enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Radiant IOT Portal > Single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.
On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:
a. In the Identifier textbox, type a URL using one of the following patterns:
Identifier https://<SUBDOMAIN>.radiantrfid.com/VATServer/https://<SUBDOMAIN>.radiantrfid.com/VATPortal/b. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using one of the following patterns:
Reply URL https://<SUBDOMAIN>.radiantrfid.com/VATPortal/Saml2AuthenticationModule/acshttps://<SUBDOMAIN>.radiantrfid.com/VATServer/Saml2AuthenticationModule/acsc. In the Sign on URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<SUBDOMAIN>.radiantrfid.com/VATPortal/?cn=<CustomerName>&id=<ID>Note
These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact Radiant IOT Portal support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.
Radiant IOT Portal application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.
In addition to above, Radiant IOT Portal application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response, which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.
Name Source Attribute Email user.mail User ID user.userprincipalname Group user.groups On the Set-up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.
On the Set up Radiant IOT Portal section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.
Configure Radiant IOT Portal SSO
To configure single sign-on on Radiant IOT Portal side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Radiant IOT Portal support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.
Create Radiant IOT Portal test user
In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in Radiant IOT Portal. Radiant IOT Portal supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There's no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Radiant IOT Portal, a new one is commonly created after authentication.
Test SSO
In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.
Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Radiant IOT Portal Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Radiant IOT Portal Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Radiant IOT Portal tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Radiant IOT Portal Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.
Additional resources
Next steps
Once you configure Radiant IOT Portal 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 Cloud App Security.