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

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

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

Scenario description

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

• AssetSonar supports SP initiated SSO.
• AssetSonar supports Just In Time user provisioning.

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Add AssetSonar from the gallery

To configure the integration of AssetSonar into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add AssetSonar 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 AssetSonar in the search box.
4. Select AssetSonar 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 AssetSonar

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with AssetSonar 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 AssetSonar.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with AssetSonar, 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 AssetSonar SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create AssetSonar test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in AssetSonar 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 > AssetSonar > 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.

   

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

   In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.assetsonar.com/users/sign_in

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   The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact AssetSonar Client support team to get the value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

6. AssetSonar 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.

   

7. In addition to above, AssetSonar 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
   first_name	user.givenname
   last_name	user.surname

8. 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.

   

9. On the Set up AssetSonar section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

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 AssetSonar.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > AssetSonar.
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 AssetSonar SSO

To configure single sign-on on AssetSonar side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to AssetSonar support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create AssetSonar test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in AssetSonar. AssetSonar 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 AssetSonar, a new one is 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 AssetSonar Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

• Go to AssetSonar Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the AssetSonar tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to AssetSonar Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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